Tis Peterman News Today

The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission’s Tis Peterman told lawmakers at an April 27 meeting of the Alaska House Fisheries Committee that its most recent petition was submitted “which basically stated that the trans boundary mining will have devastating effects on our way of life and downstream communities.” The Washington D.C.-based IACHR is an arm of the 35-member Organization of American States, which Canada joined in 1990.  But Tribes have complained that progress...

Human rights panel to weigh transboundary mining concerns Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | May 3, 2021 More than a dozen working and legacy mine sites are located in watersheds that are shared between British Columbia and Southeast Alaska. (Image courtesy of B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources). A booming Canadian mining area known as the Golden Triangle is key to northwest British Columbia’s economy. But Southeast Alaska tribes, fishermen and other concerned citizen...