- Posts by Ben Westerterp
AssociateBen is an associate in the Mining and Real Estate Groups at the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell. He assists clients on a broad range of commercial and project development matters in the commercial real estate and natural resource ...
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has given the Province (specifically, the Chief Gold Commissioner (“CGC”) – the decision-maker under the Mineral Tenure Act (“MTA”)) 18 months to design and implement a process that provides for consultation with Indigenous groups adversely affected by the system of issuing mineral claims under the MTA in their ...
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