Keepers of the Water

This summer, we have partnered with Kátł'odeeche FN & @CAPE_ACME to host the 2024 Tu’de’gha’ Conference Aug 1 to 3/24, at 8:00 p.m. at the Chief Lamalice Complex in Hay River, NT. #WaterIsLife #Tudegha #NWT Register here: tiny.cc/51p9zz

Indigenous Peoples in AlB Demand Surface Water Co-Management & Conservation Objective Rights Indigenous Science (TEK) can no longer be ignored as the only viable solution to the climate chaos we are experiencing #WaterIsLife #ClimateChange #ProtectWater keepersofthewater.ca/news/july-11-2…

Reposting as a reminder that in fact MZO's and "strong mayor powers" do not override the Duty to Consult with First Nations. @TwpofScugog @ChiefsofOntario @AnishNation @envirodefence @OntarioNature #ONpoli @PaulCalandra @Andrea_Khanjin @RockCouncillor

Have you ever been gaslit by one of the biggest funders of fossil fuels in the world? Our partners have. Check out what Citibank told them.

Leslie recounts oral histories shared by his uncle, Elder Paul Marcel about the impacts of losing access to harvesting areas in Wood Buffalo National Park after the 1926 expansion. 🔊“When [Wood Buffalo National Park] was expanded, was when the Dene people, the Chipewyan People of Fort Chip, were really affected.” P. 124, 0:07-0:18 – ACFN Member, Leslie Wiltzen 🔖Read or listen to more in our book, Remembering Our Relations - University of Calgary Press (ucalgary.ca)

There’s only one week left in the opportunity to work with us as the Community Engagement Coordinator. Apply Today! #KeepersOfTheWater #WaterIsLife #ProtectWater #WorkWithUsWednesday keepersofthewater.ca/news/community…

This community still has the resilience to continue this decades-long fight for justice from willful mercury poisoning, while the threat of a nuclear waste DGR looms on the horizon.

Politicians and corporations are using ‘economic reconciliation’ as another greenwashing tactic, and Janelle Lapointe is calling it out as BS: breachmedia.ca/economic-recon… #TruthAndReconciliation

Grizzly bears are a threatened species. Yet the UCP have just sneakily declared the grizzly bear hunt back on. MLA @ElmeligiSarah (an ACTUAL bear biologist) has been clear: killing grizzlies won’t reduce human-bear conflict. I’m angry and so are many of you. Let the UCP know.

If you live in Canada, you should be alarmed. If you live in Ontario, you should be terrified #nuclearwaste #water #waterpollution #health #ChalkRiver #Ontario #Canada #NuclearEnergy @CAPE_ACME @KeepersOfWater @DavidSuzukiFDN @envirodefence @GreenpeaceCA worldbeyondwar.org/your-drinking-…

No updates on this industry-induced explosion and subsequent grass fire.

Don't be deceived—economic reconciliation is still about resource control and corporate profiteering. Read about the industry’s latest chess move in my piece for @TheBreachMedia: breachmedia.ca/economic-recon…

We are failing to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees. For context, the recent fossil fueled climate disasters, freak flooding, arctic “zombie fires”, “rain bombs”, are happening with just 1 degree of warming. Unless we stop expanding fossil fuels, it’s going to get a lot worse.

To those in the way back who need things mapped out visually. This is the harm that frontline communities have endured, & it's still coming: extraction expansion—a map of ongoing health battles, like high rare bile duct cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan. #WaterIsLife #climatechange

A useful overview from @ecojustice_ca on tar sands, toxic chemicals in tailings ponds, environmental racism, and the recent federal government decision to assess the toxicity of naphthenic acids: ecojustice.ca/news/dead-salm… #cdnpoli

ICYMI: The north is not empty land. It’s the homelands and treaty territories of so many people across Kiiwetinoong. The land isn’t begging for drill holes and mining .

1) We have another week coming up in the colonial courts attempting to criminalize us. This week will be part of our Abuse of Process claim. Please join us in Smithers at the court house from June 17-21 9-4 each day.

In Canada, we have a new term for fossil fueled fire weather: zombie fires. A burning under the snow in the permafrost that sparks after the melt. They’re hard to spot marking them all the more devastating. And they’ll only get worse as the climate warms. This is an emergency.

Huge win. Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet: buff.ly/3QNZzdo Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate

Canada’s big banks are world leaders - in financing the climate crisis. Later today, for the first time ever, they will testify before Parliament to answer for their role in financing the climate crisis. #BankersOnTrial theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…