Vancouver’s Teck Resources announced Sunday that it is withdrawing its application for the multi-billion dollar Teck Frontier Mine project...

Fourteen First Nation and Metis communities signed onto the deal...

The group Indigenous Climate Action, however, said the decision is a win for Indigenous rights, sovereignty and the climate.

Chief Gerry Cheezie of Smith’s Landing First Nation, a downstream community that opposed the project and didn’t sign an agreement on it, welcomed the news.

“Our community’s survival is at stake. We are already feeling the impacts of the changing climate and the environmental degradation caused by the historical industrialization of our lands and territories. We can’t afford another tarsands project,” he said in a statement.

Environmental groups also cheered the decision as reflecting the economics of the project and the realities of climate change...