[news] Tahltan Great-grandmother Arrested for Joining Mining Blockade

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Ethan Baron | The Province | September 11, 2006

BCMetals Corp. believes the Red Chris mine in northern B.C. contains almost a million tonnes of copper and 1.2 million ounces of gold.

But Tahltan elder Lillian Moyer, 67, who was arrested Saturday, says the proposed open-pit operation south of Dease Lake would violate sacred ground, threaten traditional hunting land and ruin fisheries.

  


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