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Up to Date Briefers on the Taku, Tulsequah Chief Mine, and New Polaris
Rivers Without Borders has produced several updated Taku briefers. We have kept them short, because the issues they cover are simple...
Will Patric
5 days ago1 min read


Some Good News for the Chilkat
Rivers Without Borders and our partners have been confronting proposed mining in headwaters of the Chilkat river at the north end of the...
Will Patric
Dec 18, 20241 min read

No New News for Tulsequah Chief
RWB’s Taku Campaigner Kayla Heidenreich had an op-ed (linked below) published in the Juneau Empire recently. Unfortunately its title –...
Will Patric
Dec 18, 20241 min read


"We are all in this together"
John Morris Sr., highly respected community leader and elder of the Douglas Indian Association, has been a strong and stalwart voice for...
Will Patric
Nov 8, 20241 min read


A long overdue apology
On October 21, 2024 the Douglas Indian Association received a long overdue formal apology from the City and Borough of Juneau for the...
Will Patric
Nov 4, 20241 min read


KSM - Substantially Started?
The Anchorage Daily News editorial by RWB’s Brian Lynch is about the KSM mine proposal targeting Unuk and Nass headwaters in the...
Will Patric
Sep 22, 20242 min read


The Importance of the Chilkat to Migratory Birds
We have long been saying that the Chilkat watershed at the north end of Alaska’s panhandle has tremendous ecological significance, but a...
Will Patric
May 23, 20241 min read


We need to prevent mining pollution from creating a problem in the first place
The Boundary Waters Treaty between the U.S. and Canada calls for International Joint Commission (IJC) engagement to safeguard water...
Will Patric
May 23, 20241 min read


A Call to Engage the International Joint Commission
Earlier this month, the Anchorage Daily News published a strong Taku and transboundary watershed conservation op-ed by Juneau resident...
Rivers Without Borders
Mar 23, 20241 min read


The Globe & Mail and The Narwhal Investigate BC's Mining Problem
Over many months, The Globe and Mail and The Narwhal prepared an extensive investigation into the legacy of inadequate mining policy in...
Rivers Without Borders
Feb 28, 20241 min read


Alaska Legislators Send Clear Message to BC
Rivers Without Borders wants 2024 to be the year we see significant, no turning back progress by British Columbia to finally get...
Will Patric
Jan 12, 20241 min read


Updated white paper on the KSM mine development
Rivers Without Borders continues to track the KSM mine development threat looming over the southern Alaska – British Columbia...
Brian Lynch
Oct 17, 20231 min read


A small but important victory for the Chilkat Valley watershed
In an important partial win for Chilkat conservation, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a decision on an...
admin49492
Aug 23, 20231 min read


Clean up Tulsequah Chief mine to protect salmon and their habitat
As British Columbia government continues to only very slowly move in the right direction toward getting Tulsequah Chief pollution of the...
admin49492
Jul 5, 20231 min read


Guest Commentary: The pollution continues at Tulsequah Chief mine
The Petersburg Pilot published a 5/4/23 editorial that summarizes the situation with the Taku watershed’s Tulsequah Chief mine. British...
Rivers Without Borders
May 5, 20234 min read


Press release: Chilkat and Klehini Rivers Named Among America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023
With potential mining targeting its headwaters, southeast Alaska’s Chilkat has made the American “Most Endangered Rivers” list for 2023. ...
Rivers Without Borders
Apr 18, 20234 min read

Opinion: Building cross-border trust means cleaning up the Tulsequah Chief
A Rivers Without Borders editorial in the Juneau Empire calls on Alaska officials to step up pressure on British Columbia to get moving...
Rivers Without Borders
Apr 4, 20231 min read


Big news for the Taku
The Taku River Tlingit First Nation has come out with a very strong conservation declaration for the Taku, as announced in the 1/20/23...
Will Patric
Jan 29, 20231 min read


Press release: Chilkat mining exploration appeal
Rivers Without Borders, Takshanuk Watershed Council, Lynn Canal Conservation, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, and Audubon Alaska...
Rivers Without Borders
Nov 10, 20221 min read


Defending the Chilkat
On September 15 Chilkat Indian Village announced that its challenge of the State of Alaska’s approval of a wastewater discharge system...
Will Patric
Sep 19, 20221 min read
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