A delegation of regional and national Indigenous communities and advocacy groups will be attending the annual conference of federal and provincial Energy Ministers now underway in Saint Andrew’s.
Under the theme ‘No Clean Growth without Clean Mining,’ the groups will urge the Ministers to take meaningful action to protect the environment and communities affected by what they warn are ever greater volumes of contaminated mining wastes generated by the industry.
A public conference entitled “Protecting the Nashwaak Watershed” will be held at the St. Mary’s First Nation Cultural Centre in Fredericton tonight. Those taking part will be discussing what the Mount Polley mine spill in B-C, described one of the major environmental disasters in Canadian history, has to teach about the Sisson mine project.
