Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC)

"As we're fighting this fight, I know our ancestors are with us, helping to give us the strength to do this important work, so we can leave this area to those that come behind us." — Esther Reese, SEITC President and Chair. Established in 2014, Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC) is a consortium of 15 Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Nations upholding their sovereign right to steward traditional lands, waterways and sacred sites. SEITC is currently leading a significant human rights initiative that aims to halt any further harm to transboundary watersheds and traditional territories. #humanrights #dripa #sovereignty #southeastalaska #wrangell #stikine

Seabridge Gold is quietly seeking to amend its 2014 KSM permit. Proposed changes include separating the 14-mile twinned tunnels from the mine and removing all selenium discharge limits, despite plans to release wastewater into salmon-bearing rivers. Selenium is highly toxic to fish, even at low concentrations. Read our breakdown:

Comment on the Red Chris Mine expansion: https://lnkd.in/gJBRv3kU The gold-copper mine in the #Stikine watershed is shifting to block cave mining, a method that creates subsidence craters, permanently alters land stability, and requires massive infrastructure expansion.

Southeast Alaska is one of the most stunning and diverse regions on Earth, and it needs our protection now more than ever. ?? Donate today and stand with the Tribes to preserve this incredible place for future generations:?seitc.org/support-us #SoutheastAlaska #TransboundaryMining #Tongass #Unuk #Stikine #Taku

Seabridge Gold's KSM threatens the Nass and Unuk rivers, which support several species of Pacific salmon and eulachon and are vital to nearby communities. The legal challenge seeks to overturn the EAO’s decision, ensuring that projects like the KSM are assessed under current environmental laws and using up to date information and science. #ESG #HumanRights #TransboundaryMining https://lnkd.in/gt_csyVR

Tsetsaut Skii km Lax Ha, a First Nation in British Columbia, is challenging the KSM's "substantial start" status, citing exclusion from consultation while Seabridge Gold plans to store the mine's toxic waste on their territory.

The Wagners worry about the future of waterways that have sustained their family and others for hundreds of years. “What I want is that the river is still there for my children and their children,” Louie Wagner said. “Everything that was endangered is disappearing and never coming back. It’s just pictures in a picture book — like dinosaurs.” Washington Post coverage of the threat that #transboundaryMining poses to our Tribal citizens and the lands and waters they depend on. https://lnkd.in/gzbsH2KY

"SEITC President Esther Aaltséen Reese said Wrangell will be directly impacted by the mining project. Galore Creek is 25 miles from the border and the entire project drains into the Stikine River." KSTK reports on Canada’s $15 million funding for the Galore Creek Mine. Listen here:

Canada’s department of natural resources last month announced that it plans to inject about $15 million U.S. into a massive copper and gold development just 25 miles from the Alaska border. The project is perched above tributaries of the Stikine River — a major salmon-bearing waterway that flows into Alaska’s Inside Passage between the small towns of Wrangell and Petersburg. “Rather than honoring Indigenous sovereignty and its treaty obligations, Canada is staging our traditional homelands and waters to be the sacrifice zone to benefit the British Columbia mining industry and its shareholders,” Richard Chalyee éesh Peterson, president of Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal government, the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. https://lnkd.in/ew9FkzzZ

Register and comment: https://lnkd.in/gQsnek3c The British Columbia government is now accepting comments from the public on Skeena Resources' proposal for the Eskay Creek Mine, located 40 miles upstream from the Alaska border in the Unuk River watershed.