Friday, August 16, 2013

Tahltan Nation Gives Fortune Minerals 24 Hours to Clear Out of Territory

Tahltan Nation Evicts Fortune Minerals

by Iskut Band-Council

Yesterday at 8pm the "Klabona Keepers" made it up to Didene (The loop) on the Klappan road where they gave Fortune Minerals an eviction notice.

The notice stated that the Arctos project is not welcome in the Tahltan Territory and they have 24 hours to leave the area.

Today, people are congregating at Didene (the loop...110km Klappan Road) to conclude the 24 hour notice.

Please show your support for our territory by joining the people tonight. There are people camping and others traveling back-and-forth.


[http://skeenawatershed.com/events/detail/get_your_ass_to_the_sacred_headwaters_asap

Tahltan Central Council site: 
http://www.tahltan.org/news/tahltan-nation-opposes-fast-tracking-coal-mine-sacred-headwaters

Info on Tahltan Nation and 2005 arrest of elders for blocking the same company, Fortune Minerals, from the only access road into the Sacred Headwaters:
http://www.firstnations.de/mining/tahltan.htm

The place being protected, Mt. Klappan, is in the centre of the Sacred Headwaters where Royal Dutch Shell was evicted by the Tahltans in Dec, 2012. This place is where the Stikine, Skeena and Nass Rivers are born within a few km  of each other.]

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