Takshanuk Watershed Council resigns from mining committee

In a unanimous board decision last Thursday, Dec. 5, Takshanuk Watershed Council resigned from the Chilkat Mining Forum Committee with board president Ben Kirkpatrick saying the mining committee “was not worth the effort we were putting into it.”

Takshanuk is the fourth organization to resign from the mining forum committee since 2017. The Chilkat Indian Village and Lynn Canal Conservation resigned in the fall of 2017. The Haines Economic Development Corporation resigned last month. LCC…