ENSC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Precautionary Principle, Ecosystem Approach, First Nations

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENSC 310
• Professor: John Andrew

Document Summary

First nations have the right to self governments. Right to settle land claims with other forms of government. First priority of a fishery resource should be preservation/ conservation. As long as the sustainability of the fisheries are ensured the second priority is to aboriginals. They get first access to the fish as long as sustainability is ensured. Have to consider aboriginal knowledge when dealing with an environmental issue. They really weren"t consulted with cepa -so they thought it was going to be a positive change but then they were not consulted. Harmonization accord was not approved because the first nations were not consulted. Once something is on the priority substances list -they have 5 years to test the toxicity of that substance. Toxic -if it satisfies all 3 of the criteria causes harm to environment, causes danger to environment which life depends, danger to human life and health.