Nearly a dozen large mining projects planned for the interior of British Columbia could have an impact on the Stikine watershed and the lifeblood of Southeast Alaska – commercial and subsistence fisheries.
That was the bleak picture painted by a group of activists who visited Wrangell last week to inform the public of plans by private industry and the B.C. government to build a number of open-pit mines and explore the vast, unpopulated region east of the U.S. border.
Guy Archibald, the Clean Water Coordinator for the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and a former mine surveyor, was at the...
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