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NEWS RELEASE
August 16, 2013
UBCIC Shares Frustration of the Tahltan People
(Coast Salish Territories / Vancouver, August 16, 2013) The Union of B.C.
Indian Chiefs Executive are very concerned by the developing situation in the
Klappan, the Sacred Headwaters of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine watersheds
involving Tahltan Elders, the Klabona Keepers, and Fortune Minerals Limited
(TSX:FT).
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs
stated "Fortune Minerals is proposing a huge open pit coal mine that will
destroy Mount Klappan and will greatly impact the whole ecosystem of the Sacred
Headwaters. It is vitally important the deeply held ecological values and
inherent cultural beliefs of the Tahltan People are at the forefront of
committed discussions with the BC Government on the protection of the Klappan."
Chief Bob Chamberlin, Vice-President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs
remarked "The response should not be a surprise to Fortune Minerals as Elders
and leadership of the Iskut First Nation, Tahltan Band Council and the Tahltan
Central Council have expressed concerns with a coal mine in the Klappan for
some time now. Their collective and consistent message has been the permanent
protection of the Klappan, the Sacred Headwaters. We firmly support the
permanent protection of the Sacred Headwaters."
Councillor Marilyn Baptiste, Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of B.C. Indian
Chiefs added, "In order for the Government of BC to find long-term solutions
they must begin by meaningfully addressing the profound concerns of the Tahltan
people. The Klappan is the Sacred Headwaters of three vitally important
salmon-bearing rivers of the North Coast - the Skeena, Nass and Stikine, and
its long-term conservation is essential to the inherent rights of hunting,
fishing and the continuation of the cultural traditions that have been
continuous for generations from the headwaters to the Pacific."
Media inquiries:
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip (250) 490-5314
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