Exploring Theme: "Specific Industry Environmental Issues"

ATAC Resources – ATAC announces that it has voluntarily relinquished 327 quartz mineral claims located within designated wilderness areas of the finalized Peel Watershed Land Use Plan (“the Plan”). As an exploration company, we are constantly looking for ways to positively engage with local communities and this contribution is consistent with our commitment to implementing...

Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Gwitchin Tribal Council – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the “Build Back Better Act”, which restores protections to Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit (The Sacred Place Where Life Begins), also known as the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Coastal Plain is critical to the survival of...

Indigenous Group: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Business: US Government and State of Alaska Issue: Opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling which threatens the Porcupine Caribou herd. The animals are protected under a U.S.-Canada treaty, which commits both nations to preserve it. Comment: April 23, 2018: CBC – The herd is the largest...

CBC – First Nations of the Peel Watershed came together with the Yukon government on Aug. 22 after 15 years of negotiations, court battles, protests and consultations to sign a landmark planning agreement that would protect more than 67,000 square kilometres of critical wilderness in the watershed region. “This is a great day for the...

Indigenous Group: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun, and Gwich’in Tribal Council, Vuntut Gwitchin Business: Yukon Government Issue: Opening up the Peel Watershed to roads, infrastructure and resource extraction Comment: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Larger than Nova Scotia, the Peel Watershed is the homeland of four First Nations who have been...