A report by the First Nations Fisheries Council on First Nations-led initiatives to protect fresh water in BC.
On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we wanted to acknowledge a long and living tradition of First Nations stewardship and leadership for waters.
It’s a frigid day in Smithers as I join the large crowd gathered in a snowy Bovill Square. We are here to witness and to listen to Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and supporters.
WBNP is an important cultural, spiritual and ecological site. But upstream industrial projects are putting this UNESCO biosphere under threat.
In September 2015, the British Columbia government took back a water license it had granted to Nexen Inc in 2012 for shale gas fracking in the northeast of the province.