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Tsilhqot’in Nation chiefs in Ottawa

The Canadian Press reports today that, “Six chiefs from an Interior B.C. First Nation will spend the next several days in Ottawa as they battle a proposal they fear will turn a sacred lake into a waste dump. The chiefs from the Tsilhqot’in Nation of south-central B.C. plan meetings with MPs and top bureaucrats in hopes of halting a Taseko Mines’ proposal to drain Fish Lake. Tsilhqot’in call the area Teztan Biny and say the two kilometre-wide open pit proposed mine, tailings pond and other developments will destroy the entire ecosystem in the region around Williams Lake, 600 kilometres north of Vancouver. …MiningWatch and the Council of Canadians helped arranged the Ottawa visit and say a loophole in the Fisheries Act allows for the destruction of freshwater bodies in Canada.”

The Canadian Press article appears on the CTV website at http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100210/bc_mine_protest_100210/20100210?hub=BritishColumbia, as well as in the Metro newspapers in Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, and the Tyee.ca.

Council of Canadians water campaigner Meera Karunananthan’s blog on this from today can be read at
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/mvk/2010/02/use-fisheries-act-highlights-conservative-hypocrisy-regarding-water.

My blog on it is at http://canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=2867.