“They’re blanket-staking the whole territory,” says Trish Hume, a member
of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. Though Hume does mapping
work that’s mining related, she worries that the Yukon is reaching a
tipping point where the environmental and cultural costs of mining
outweigh the benefits. “The people coming up and taking out minerals
aren’t asking what happens to the animals we hunt, the fish we eat, the
topsoil that holds it all together. And when the boom is over, how does
our tiny population afford to clean up the toxic mess?”
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/yukon/clynes-text
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