-- Jamie
Friends of the Cheslatta t'en
26 Walton Court
Ottawa, Ontario K1V 9T1
Phone: (613) 523-4257
Fax: (613) 523-0709
May 1994
To All People Who Care About the Future
The enclosed package tells a horrifying story that has staggering
implications for the future of all Canadians and frightening consequences
for the environment.
It is a story of the suffering of a people (the Cheslatta Carrier Nation of
B.C.) who have lost everything -- their language, their culture, their
livelihood, their land and waters to fish in; even their ancestors have not
been left in peace as their bones and caskets are still found floating in
Lake Cheslatta or washed up on the shores from flooded graveyards.
The story began with a hydro-electric mega-project called Kemano 1 which
altered the water flows in the Nechako Watershed, not only displacing the
Cheslatta t'en, but endangering the salmon of the area, salmon that have
until now made the Fraser River the best salmon producing river in the
world.
And now, 42 years later the Kemano 2 project, temporarily on hold for the
last year, threatens extinction of the salmon stocks and will keep the
Cheslatta t'en from the land that is rightfully theirs.
Kemano 2, incredulously exempted in 1990 from the federal Environmental
Assessment and Review Process (EARP) by Mulroney's cabinet, is currently
before a B.C. Utilities Commission Hearing before construction restarts.
We call for all people of good conscience to act now to stop Kemano 2.
This is not just a B.C. issue, it is a Canadian and world ecological issue.
Please help stop the devastation.
This package includes: The Story
The Story Update
Background Chronology
Action Plan
Sample Letter
We owe all we can do now to our future generations.