Skeena River Estuary - Heart of the Skeena

The Skeena River Estuary provides some of the most critical salmon habitat in the Skeena River Watershed. Each year over 279 million pacific salmon utilize the Skeena River Estuary. This area is under industrial threat by various large scale projects. The Non-Profit, SkeenaWild produced this video to share information with the public and prompt these corporate giant to reconsider construction activities.

TAKE ACTION - Save Lelu Island and Skeena salmon from LNG

A very important call to action from the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition.

The Skeena estuary is the ONE place that EVERY, single SALMON and STEELHEAD from EVERY stream, lake or tributary in the Skeena watershed goes. 

The health and abundance of wild salmon depend on intact fresh and saltwater habitats.

The proposed Petronas Pacific NorthWest LNG development on Lelu Island, on the estuary of the Skeena River, would require massive dredging of areas that have been identified as critical to the health and abundance of Skeena salmon.

A study by the federal government in 1973, as well as recent science, confirms that altering or destroying these habitats will significantly damage the abundance and health of Skeena salmon.

This site was selected for industrial development without consultation with First Nations and Skeena communities.

Would you rather have wild Skeena salmon and steelhead or an LNG terminal?  We can't move the salmon or their habitat, but we can move the terminal.

PLEASE SIGN THE DECLARATION

Gitxsan consider service disruptions targeting CN Rail and other companies in northwestern B.C.

After serving eviction notices on July 10, the Gitxsan First Nation has warned it could begin service disruptions targeting companies operating the the Skeena River watershed.

Rail, logging, and sport-fishing companies operating along the Skeena River watershed could be targeted beginning the first week of August.

LINK (via: Straight)

Skeena Shitshow

The Gitxsan Treaty Society has served an eviction notice on Skeena anglers, foresters and CN Rai.

“This eviction notice affects all sports fisheries on the Skeena River and tributaries, all forest activities … and CN Rail,” declared the Gitxsan. “All are expected to vacate and cease activities on Aug. 4, 2014 until both Crowns have obtained the required consent of the Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs.”

LINK (via: The Globe and Mail)

The Gitxsan chiefs also signed a sketchy deal with Enbridge in 2011.

Study says LNG projects threaten Skeena River salmon runs

Two liquefied natural gas projects are planned just south of Prince Rupert. There's (at least) one problem: Pacific Northwest LNG and Prince Rupert LNG would be located in the Skeena River estuary, which a Simon Fraser University study shows is a habitat critical to the future of the area's big salmon runs.

LINK (via: Straight.com)

Court overturns B.C. government’s ruling that rejected mine

Not good....

Prospects for a proposed open pit gold and copper mine located at the headwaters of the Skeena River, improved this week after a B.C. Supreme Court justice overturned a previous decision by provincial government ministers to reject the project.

LINK (via: The Vancouver Sun)