Acted for Canadian Zinc Corporation in regard to whether the land use permit sought by Canadian Zinc to use a winter access road to Prairie Creek Mine was exempt from the provisions of the MacKenzie Valley Resource Management Act by virtue of a grand fathering provision in the Act which exempted certain licences or permits issued prior to 1984 from an environmental review.
On May 6, 2005, The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories ruled that Canadian Zinc's permit application is exempt from environmental assessment in accordance with the provisions of Part 5 of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.