By Caroleine James
Wrangell Sentinel Writer 

Alaskans continue pressing for U.S. intervention on B.C. mines

 

March 16, 2023



After meeting with representatives of the British Columbia mining and environmental ministries in Juneau last week, state legislators, Alaska Native leaders and environmentalists urged the federal government to intervene against the development of new B.C. mines that could pollute transboundary salmon runs.

In a press conference March 8, stakeholders called on the federal government to use its powers under the U.S.-Canada Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 to place an immediate temporary pause on the exploration, development and expansion of B.C. mines upstream from Alaska salmon rivers until...



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