JUNEAU, AK – Protecting the lands and waters that have sustained our peoples for countless generations is a shared responsibility. For Indigenous people, the work is done to ensure our children inherit a world where our cultures thrive, our sovereign rights are respected, and our voices are heard. These sentiments echoed throughout the Indigenous-led Transboundary Mining […]
WASHINGTON – Representative Mary Sattler Peltola and U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan last week sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their continued concern over transboundary mining in British Columbia (B.C.) just upstream of several Southeast Alaska rivers. The delegation has repeatedly urged the Biden administration to help protect Alaska’s communities and marine […]
Washington D.C. – A vital ecological area shared by British Columbia (B.C.) and Southeast Alaska faces escalating pressure from Canadian gold mining exploration companies propelled by the obscure, Ponzi scheme-like “Prospect Generator Model (PGM).” The latest investigation titled Bad Prospects, by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) uncovers a web-like network of more than 450 Canadian […]
IJC Commissioners, Federal, State, and Tribal Leaders Discuss Transboundary Issues JUNEAU, AK – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), joined by U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), today led a roundtable discussion on transboundary issues, bringing together federal, state, tribal, and local leaders as well as visiting Commissioners from the International Joint Commission (IJC), the bilateral […]