Telegraph Elders,Tl’abânot’în Clan and Iskut First Nations Block the passage of heavy Industrial Equipment from entering the Sacred Headwaters:

Fortune Minerals plan to begin drilling for coal in the Kla-bon-a-tine Sacred Headwaters/Mount Klappan area hit a roadblock over the weekend. In a display of growing Tahltan unity in opposition to failed leadership, the Iskut First Nations, Telegraph Tahltan Elders and Tl’abânot’în families put up a Blockade at the junction of Hwy 37 and the Eulue Lake road in northern British Columbia on Saturday July 16, 2005. The Eulue lake road is the current access way into the Mount Klappan Coalfields.

On June 18, 2005 Fortune Minerals was given notice that their project infringed upon Tl’abânot’în Aboriginal Title and Rights when the company was granted tenure without honorable consultation with the family whose traditional territory the tenure is located on. Fortune mineral to date has not responded to the notice.

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February 23, 2005

Via facsimile and post-403.691.3997
Clive Mather, President & CEO Shell Canada
Shell Canada Limited
P.O. Box 100 Station M
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 2H5

Dear Mr. Mather:

Re: Infringement of Aboriginal Title from Shell Canada coalbed methane operations in the Klappan (Tl’abane) Sacred Headwaters

I am writing to bring your attention to a very serious matter, your company’s infringement of our Aboriginal Title and Rights resulting from your ongoing exploration of drilling for coalbed methane in the Klappan-Groundhog coalfield underlying the Tl’abane Sacred Headwaters which is my family’s traditional territory and the Stikine, Skeena and Nass watershed.

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