Takla Lake Blockades Road to Protect Territorial Interests

The Takla Lake First Nation (Carrier) has set up a check point on a road which provides access to its hunting and camping areas. Access to a sacred area is restricted by the action. From Opinion 250:

Takla representatives are angered that their rights and Territory have been seriously damaged by mining and forestry in the past and nothing has been done. “The government still hasn’t cleaned up the contaminated mercury mine at the Bralorne site”, stated Councillor Kathaleigh George. “It’s on their top 10 list of contaminated sites, and they won’t clean it up. This is in an important camping and hunting area and our Nation has a hard time accepting new mining when there is this old unfinished business”.

This action looks very similar to the continuing checkpoint/blockade of the Ealue Lake Road near Iskut Village. That checkpoint restricts access to the headwaters of the Nass, Skeena, and Stikine Rivers and to the hunting and camping areas of Tahltans.

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