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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - An aboriginal group is asking the Federal Court of Canada to temporarily halt an environmental review of a $6-billion natural gas pipeline, which it says could impact its traditional way of life.
The Dene Tha are a First Nations tribe whose traditional territory is spread across seven reserves in Alberta, British Columbia, and the southern end of the Northwest Territories. They say the federal government has left them completely out of the consultation process on the MacKenzie Valley pipeline process.
The pipeline would cross traditional lands of the 2,500-strong Dene Tha nation. The case before Justice Michael Phelan this week came even as the federal Joint Review Panel on the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project pipeline continues in Inuvik, in Canada's Northwest Territories.
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