The Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) is raising concerns about B.C.’s Heritage Conservation Act Transformation Project. The purpose of the project is to update the Heritage Conservation Act (HCA) to ensure it is consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and improve how the HCA is implemented in a way that benefits all people in B.C. …“It also impacts forestry. It impacts oil and gas. It kind of impacts everyone, and the changes that government has put forward are quite problematic,” said Jack Middleton, AME vice president of policy and advocacy. …“It’s looking to seek consent from First Nations to get an archeology permit, which they’re framing as speeding up the process, but we feel will ultimately slow the process down without a serious explanation of how it will speed things up,” Middleton said.