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New Salmon Habitat Created By Melting Glaciers Could Be Threatened By Mining Claims, Study Finds

Dec 13, 2023 | Climate, Fisheries, Mining

Thousands of salmon on the West Coast of North America are finding their way into new streams left behind as glaciers retreat. But a new study suggests mining companies are too keen on the newly exposed mineral deposits beneath the shrinking glaciers — and few...

Ksi Lisims LNG Project Raises Alarms Over Climate, Lack Of Consultation And Fisheries On Gitanyow Huwilp

Dec 11, 2023 | Climate, Fisheries, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development

The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs (GHC) express deep concerns over the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG Project (the Project) in an open letter addressed to the representatives of the Project on November 24, 2023. Ksi Lisims LNG proposes to construct a floating LNG terminal in...

How BC Is Tackling A ‘Paradigm Shift’ In Its Forests

Dec 6, 2023 | Forestry

Three years after the Old Growth Strategic Review, the province has made three big recent announcements. A Tyee explainer. At the northern edge of the province, along the Rocky Mountain Trench, the Mackenzie timber supply area, which covers 6.4 million hectares, has...

“Nisga’a Rewrote History And The Government Looked Away”

Dec 5, 2023 | overlap

Gitanyow Calls For Immediate Action After Decades of Waiting To Resolve Land Claim The Gitanyow Nation asserts that the Nisga’a Nation rewrote history and the government turned a blind eye, perpetuating a decades-long struggle for justice with the signing of the...

Gitanyow & Nisga’a: Territorial Overlap

Dec 1, 2023 | Featured Story, overlap

Gitanyow and Nisga’a had a long-standing peaceful relationship as neighbours for thousands of years prior to European contact. Post-contact, their relationship is damaged due to territorial disputes. What happened? Many people remain unaware of the origins and...

Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs Want To Know Why They Were Left Out Of Pipeline Discussion

Nov 30, 2023 | Climate, Fisheries, Ksi Lisims LNG Project

In northern BC, an Enbridge pipeline project has been resurrected by Alberta natural gas pipelines, liquids pipelines and energy company TC Energy. Purchased in 2022, the "Westcoast connector" (as it was called when owned by Enbridge) was renamed the Prince Rupert Gas...