Abstract
One of the emerging changes to the way mining happens in Canada is the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIPA). In countries that have historically controlled Indigenous peoples’ access to their land and to wealth, this will have significant impacts on the economic and governance fundamentals for mining.
This brief presentation on how DRIPA is likely to affect the process of staking claims also has implications for junior miners and for companies in the production phase. Likewise, there are changes on the investment horizon that will impact the industry and its relationships with First Nations communities in Canada.
We’ll wrap the session with a view to the impacts of Bolivia’s adoption of UNDRIP and what’s ahead for other mining jurisdictions in Canada.
Bio
Kyle Pearce is the Vice President, Community Integration with Inspire Resources, a BC Canada-based company. Inspire Resources (www.inspire-resources.ca) aims to support a transition to sustainable mining through technology and relationships. Core to this mission is the concept of Mining as a Service, where mining fuels long-term sustainable development for remote and Indigenous communities.
Kyle’s role is to help transform relationships between companies, regulators and communities through their Community Integration (CI) model. This CI model includes early and deep engagement, equity ownership and ultimately co-designing all stages of mining in partnership with communities, with a target of the UN’s SDG’s and long-term, sustainable and holistic community development.
Before coming to Inspire, Kyle led think: act consulting, working with health and community organizations to improve services design and access for marginalized communities. Kyle has two teenage sons and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil Waututh First Nations, in what is commonly known as Vancouver.
Additional Information
During his session, Kyle posed the question “WHAT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CHANGED YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON MINING,MADE YOU EMBRACE A DIFFERENT VISION FOR THE INDUSTRY?”, we captured some of the responses.
