#ktunaxa — Public Fediverse posts

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

Coast #Salish #FreedomFighters: From Alberta #TarSands to the #SalishSea

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews Nov. 7, 2024

SEATTLE -- "The dead birds floating in the #AlbertATarSands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased #OilTankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the #TransMountainPipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"'We are not just #activists, we are #revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years,' said #KanahusManuel, #Secwepemc and #Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

"Speaking at the State of Emergency for The Salish Sea in #SeattleWashington on Thursday, Kanahus said, 'We are the title holders to the land.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/coast-salish-freedom-fighters-from.html

#LandBack #DefendTheSacred #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest

Stitched pano of White Pyramid Mountain reflected in Waterfowl Lake, Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc)

#WhitePyramid #WaterfowlLake #IcefieldsParkway #Alberta #Canada

Stitched panorama of #Crowfoot #Glacier and Crowfoot #Mountain, near #BowLake, #Alberta, #Canada. #Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc.

Glacier National Park, Trans-Canada Highway east of Revelstoke, #BC, #Canada. (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc). #GlacierNationalPark

On the Trans-Canada Highway, between #Revelstoke and #Golden, #BC, #Canada. #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org, #Sinixt https://sinixtnation.org/content/about-us, #Sylix https://www.syilx.org/about-us/syilx-nation/ and #Secwepemctsín https://tkemlups.ca.

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

#Christina Lake, #BC, #Canada (#Sinixt https://sinixt.org, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org)

View of Mt Gladstone from near Paulson, #BC, #Canada (General vicinity of #Castlegar), 2018-10-09. #Ktunaxa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktunaxa_Nation aka #Kootenay or Kutanai. Paulson is officially a ghost town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulson,_British_Columbia

#landscape #photography