[news] Fortune Minerals Blocked From Entering the Mount Klappan Coal Fields

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Oscar Dennis | Email communication | July 19, 2005 Telegraph Elders,Tl'ab anot'in Clan and Iskut First Nations Block the passage of heavy Industrial Equipment from entering the Sacred Headwaters Fortune Minerals plan to begin drilling for coal in the Kla-bon-a-tine Sacred Headwaters /Mount Klappan area hit a roadblock over the weekend. In a display of growing Tahltan unity in opposition to failed leadership, the Iskut First Nations, Telegraph Tahltan Elders and Tl'ab anot'in families put up a Blockade at the junction of Hwy 37 and the Eulue Lake road in northern British Columbia on Saturday July 16, 2005. The Eulue lake road is the current access way into the Mount Klappan Coalfields.

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