Indigenous Canadians Are Blockading a Mine to Protest Pollution

Last time the Klabona Keepers blocked the mine’s two entrances, British Columbia’s mines minister and high-ranking execs from Imperial Metals came out to the blockade to negotiate a deal. The company offered to pay an independent contractor chosen by the Tahltan to conduct a safety review of the “tailings facility” (the man-made lake where they planned to dump more sludge containing arsenic, lead, and mercury). BC’s provincial government agreed not to issue the mine’s final permit until that independent review was complete.
The Keepers agreed to these terms on August 23, but returned to the mining roads on September 29 and set up camp. What brought them back to the blockade?
“A few women came up from Secwepemc territory and did a presentation about what happened at Mount Polley,” said Klabona Keepers spokesperson Rhoda Quock, who I reached by phone on Saturday.
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