BC Touts a New Gold Mine. Xatśūll First Nation Has Big Worries – The Tyee
The Cariboo Gold Project will bring jobs and investment, but could harm a precarious caribou herd.
The Chief of Xatśūll First Nation says she’ll be devastated if her Secwépemc community’s children never see a real caribou in their lives.
“We’re going to show them pictures of what caribou look like, which is sad,” she told IndigiNews. “It is scary to think about.”
It’s Kukpi7 (Chief) Rhonda Phillips’s fears for the already threatened ungulate species in her First Nation’s territories north of Williams Lake — where southern mountain caribou are among the most at risk in the country — that have her deeply concerned about a massive gold mine moving ahead there.
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