I have friends who are directly affected by the increased #racism towards #Indigenous people in #PowellRiver. It's always been an issue but has increased in recent years.
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-5gahQcgASNusEI6JT6rk8A%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

#Tlaamin #BCpoli #CDNpoli #FirstNations #UNDRIP #SunshineCoast

Critical minerals collide with #tourism in B.C. resort town.

A #Calgary based mining company called West High Yield Resources wants to extract #magnesium ore from Record Ridge, about seven kilometres outside of town, and ship it overseas.

West High Yield holds mineral claims over 8,972 hectares at the site — an area 4.6 times bigger than the city of Victoria. In October 2025, the #BCgovernment approved the company’s #mining permit.

Several #Rossland residents say they have been confounded by what they see as abnormalities in the siting and permitting of the mine. Many have united under the banner of the non-profit Save Record Ridge Action Society ( #SRRAC ).

At one point, WHY Resources sought to remove up to 200,000 tonnes of ore a year, but later reduced that to 63,500 tonnes per year — below the 70,000-tonne limit that often triggers an environmental assessment.

In a May 2025 letter to the province, the #Ktunaxa Nation Council argued alongside SRRAC that the mine footprint only dropped by 5.7 per cent, despite a 68 per cent cut in proposed production.

The stated lower production capacity “masks and understates its true capacity” and environmental footprint, added the nation, arguing it’s designed to avoid initial regulatory hurdles and be scaled up later.

SRRAC requested that Ottawa carry out an environmental review of the Record Ridge mine project.

A report issued last month from the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada rejected that request. It found the mine project did not require federal designation, and that existing laws were enough to manage the potential impacts on fish, migratory birds and Indigenous rights.

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/critical-minerals-collide-with-tourism-in-bc-resort-town-12068777

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #StopEcocide #Environmental #Climate #EcoJustice #UNDRIP #IndigenousRights #ProtectTheWild #biodiversity #EcologicalHealth #OneEarth #BritishColumbia #AbolishCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #NoSubsidiesForMining

#LNG : Not in Our National Interest National Campaign Launch

📅 Tuesday, March 31, 2026

🕓 4:00 PM PT/ 7:00 PM ET

📍 Zoom Webinar

https://act.stand.earth/s/4775242/6bS5o8MM

[ We’re in pretty wild times right now. In the midst of global turmoil and another oil war, our Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing hard to fast-track new fossil fuel megaprojects.

Foreign investors are pitching LNG exports as an economic cure-all for Canada. But if LNG is such an economic engine, why do they need billions of our public dollars?

That’s why we’re starting a new national campaign to pressure Prime Minister Carney and his key ministers to stop the government from giving billions more of our taxpayer money to dirty energy megaprojects that mostly benefit foreign billionaires. We want the government to start to fund the clean, renewable economy instead

You’ll hear from movement leaders and experts to learn why these foreign-owned, high-cost projects will raise energy prices at home and harm Indigenous reconciliation. Showcasing how much better the clean, renewable economy is on every measure.

We’ll also share details of exciting in-person actions happening across the country for the Week of Action in mid-April. This is our chance to tell the Carney government that Canadians say NO to more free money for big polluters, and YES to funding the clean energy economy.]

#CDNPoli #BCpoli #EndFossilFuels #CleanEnergyNow #ClimateAction #StopCorporateWelfare #NoSubsidiesForLNG #StandEarth #OneEarth #Canada #MarkCarney #Environmental #StopEcocide #AbolishLobbyists #RealBadDeal #UNDRIP #Landback #CapitalismKills #DirtyDeals #FuckCarney #MakePollutersPay #EcoJustice #Canadians #Climate

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@canadianglen/116298728870050667

#Enbridge "targets #Indigenousrights and values — from free, prior and informed consent to kinship with the natural world — precisely because they pose an alternative to #fossilfuel extraction during a #climatechange crisis and widespread species die-offs."

#BigOil #ClimateCriminals #UNDRIP #Colonialism #PoliceViolence #Line5 #cdnpoli #uspol

Just published:

"Evolution of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights as Human Rights: Contribution of Sámi Rights Cases at UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies"
– by Martin Scheinin & Mattias Åhrén
https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2026.2639220

#OpenAccess
#IndigenousPeoples
#humanRights
#culture
#selfDetermination
#nonDiscrimination
#positiveObligations
#intergenerationalRights
#climateChange
#NordicCountries
#SámiPeople
#UNHumanRightsTreatyBodies
#FPIC
#UNDRIP

Kynoch went on to note that Imperial Metals “remains committed to engaging respectfully with First Nations and local communities as the project moves forward.”

and then completely ignoring the First Nations:

Tla-o-qui-aht manager of lands and resources Saya Masso said the last correspondence the nation sent to the Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals clearly stated that the nation does not consent to mineral exploration in the tribal park [...] "We clearly said no for many years"

and that position is obvious considering how Imperial Metals has performed in the past:

Imperial Metals is currently facing 15 charges under the federal Fisheries Act in relation to the tailings pond breach at the Mount Polley Mine on August 4, 2014. The mine is located in B.C.’s interior Cariboo region and the traditional territory of Xat’sull First Nation.

According to the B.C. government, the Mount Polley tailings embankment breach resulted in the loss of about 17 million cubic metres of [industrially polluted] water and eight million cubic metres of tailings/materials into

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/19/Imperial-Metals-Gold-Exploration-Despite-Indigenous-Objections/?utm_source=mastodon

#BCPoli #UNDRIP #BC #mining #environment

"#BillC5 is a reiteration of the #racist ideologies that created so much harm to #IndigenousPeoples and Mother Earth through land dispossession and attacks on our teachings, languages and governance." This is #Canada led by the #CarneyCons . https://davidsuzuki.org/story/regression-bill-c-5/

#UNDRIP #cdnpoli #settlerColonialism #climateChange #denialism #CorporateCapture

Chief Sheldon Sunshine writes to Prime Minister Mark Carney about the draft cooperation agreement giving Alberta more responsibility for impact assessments.

In a “turnabout is fair play” move, he gives Carney until March 19 to respond.

The public (including First Nations) were given a deadline of March 27 to respond to the draft agreement.

“Canada’s proposal to defer to Alberta’s basically non-existent environmental impact assessment and rubber stamp regulatory review processes will have disastrous implications, and will be antithetical to the regulatory certainty your Government seeks…”

#ableg #cdnpoli #environment #Alberta #Indigenous #UNDRIP #FirstNations #elbowsup #wondervalleyAB #AIDatacentres #AIDataCenters

https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/sturgeon-lake-cree-nation-writes?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

This is WRONG headed on several levels! https://thenarwhal.ca/grassy-narrows-ontario-mine-permit/

#FreeGrassy #onpoli #colonialism #mining #IndigenousRights #UNDRIP #cdnpoli