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» IN A SOMETIMES raucous
session here Nov. 1, a group
of Tahltan told mining com-
pany executives the’ve been
talking to the wrong people
in an attempt to find approv-

plan in the Klappan area
northeast of here.

More than half a dozen
Tahltan out of a group of
two dozen Tahltan inter-
rupted two Fortune Minerals
executives at what was sup-
posed to be a two-hour infor-

‘million tonnes of anthracite

and ship it out either by road
orrailforexport. © -

They told president Robin
: é Goad and company director
€ Jim Excell that they should
-not be dealing with the peo-
ple and elders who claim the

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Klappan’and not the Tahltan .

Central. Council which they
"said has no legitamacy:

-And they said any indus-

trial development will harm

the environment of their tra-

~ ditional territory.

_ “The leaders do not speak
- for the elders,” said Millie
_ Pauls. “We're talking about

Tahltan lands and that’s why
_ we’re here.”
She and others said For-

‘tune’s conversations with .

elected band councils and
the Tahltan Central Council,
which represents all Tahltan
people, were wrong as those
groups only have jurisdic-

tion over reserve lands, not °

the larger Tahltan traditional
territory.

~ you see the Tahltan el-
ders first and then you come
down here and you will‘ not
‘have a problem,” said Sid

Creyke, a Tahltan that lives .
: gize.

o-in Smithers.

“po: . 1 ma
First Nations people are .that. we were blockaded ..

_ we tried very hard to resolve
the situation amicably,” re-

easy to get along with as
long as s you are honest,’ ” he
‘said.

“It’s not just for the el-
ders. Some day it will be for
the whole world,” said Au-
gust Brown. “We’re speak-

ing about a 100 years down __
the! road — for our kids -and.:.

their kids.”

“If we don’t stick.up for . :

ourselves, we'll have noth-

ing. We never did have a
- thing but we’ll have the land

and the animals,” he said.

Fortune’s open house was |

‘also the day after 15 Tahitan
were scheduled to appear in

al for an open pit coal mine.

mation open house’on “.eir
proposal to take up to three .

“ coal a year from the Klappan’

pit.coal mine on traditional Tahlitan territory.

Tahitan rip into coal men
over Klappan mining plan

TAHLTAN DEMPSEY Quock, lett, makes a ‘point with Fortune Minerals director. Jim
Excell ‘at a Nov. 1 information session on the company’ s plan to develop an open i

provincial. court here after

being arrested in September °

for defying a Supreme Court

injunction to lift.a ‘blockade

which prevented - Fortune’

from gaining access to the |
_Klappan.

Neither Fortune nor the
provincial government con-
tinued with civil or criminal :

. charges, leading the Tahltan

and other native groups to
claim victory.

Some of those who were
arrested were at the session
and let Goad and Excell
know they were unhappy.

“You had me arrested,”
Dempsey Quock told Goad
and Excell, adding he was
going to hire a lawyer to sue
for income lost because of
the time he spent on the July
to September blockade.

Others who were arrested,
called on Goad to apolo-

“We regret ‘very. much |

plied Goad.

Pressed again to apolo-
gize Goad then said, “We
apologize that you were ar-
rested.” .

- There was no response to.
Goad’s statement from the
Tahitan at the meeting.

He and Excell repeatedly
said Fortune was preparing

to start the formal environ- .

mental approval process and
asked that-it be followed in
order to- determine environ-
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had to apply for the court
injunction to lift the block- -
ade so it could continue its’ -

work in'the Klappan. .

“Otherwise we would .
_have lost’ the ~-year,” .
Goad of Fortune’ s work .

schedule.
* Julian Kemp, a Fortune
vice president who was not

-. at the meeting,” said later

that the company’s timing

Goad _ said the. company

was trying to get its informa- °

tion out to every Tahitan.
“Perhaps

we've been.

‘had to continue its work on-
the: project which. includes
open houses as part,of the .

falsely thinking it’s been .

communicated: through the
community,”
“We tried to have a meet-
ing but we were: asked: to

Speaking
Goad said Fortune was iry-

ing to balance the interests:

of:the Tahltan with those of

~his company and its inves-

tors. He said Fortune would
continue to make its best ef-
forts to include the Tahltan
in its project.

And he said the company

afterward, -

said Goad.’

of its open house a day after

the court appearance of the.

Tahtan who were arrested
was unfortunate. ;
“The issue here was that

the open house was not for”
~ the [Tahltan] people. The- ;
‘purpose of the open house *
was for the people of .Ter-

race,” he said.
Kemp. said the company

public consultation phase.
‘And he said the. com-

pany had ‘no control over
' the choosing ‘of the Oct. 31

' court date.

Kemp added «that ‘the
company chose not ‘to con-
tinue with legal proceedings

‘against those arrested . be-
cause they were not part of |

the blockade leadership. ©

He said those behind the ° ~

blockade wanted to ben-

efit from the public relations:
value of having Tahltan el-

ders arrested and being tak-
en to court.

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