First Nations Land and Natural Resources
The primary land resource issues facing First Nations communities today include:
- a limited and constrained formal land base;
- outside encroachment on resources near Reserves and within the traditional territory of the respective First Nation;
- employment and business opportunities for First Nation members;
- a need to focus on and take greater control over the pace, orientation and type of development within its traditional territory;
- Band roles in developing and managing Band resources; and
- unique and additional regulatory requirements pursuant to the Canada Indian Act.
SERC has longstanding and extensive experience in working with and for First Nations, with a view to addressing these issues and to focusing and achieving the objectives and aspirations of First Nations People and communities.
Component Services
First Nations natural resource development and conservation planning;
First Nations community and Certificate of Possession land development planning;
First Nations community economic development planning;
First Nations project environmental impact assessment;
First Nations regulatory approvals, strategies and management;
First Nations environmental and natural resources capacity building.