John J. P. Donihee

John is one of Canada’s foremost experts in environmental, regulatory, administrative, and Indigenous legal issues in Canada’s North. John focuses on environmental approvals for resource development, land claims implementation, and modern treaties in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. He advises industry, Indigenous groups, governments, and co-management tribunals involved in environmental impact assessment and land and water regulation for resource development projects in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon. He provides advice to Indigenous organizations about developing and implementing land use plans. John negotiates impact benefits agreements for Inuit, Inuvialuit and project developers. Northern governments and Indigenous organizations have retained him for advice about developing new wildlife and species at risk legislation and advising wildlife co-management tribunals. John has developed management frameworks for water on Aboriginal lands as well as for management of the regulation of land and water by northern tribunals. John is called to the Bar in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon and Alberta.