In a remote corner of northern British Columbia lies the Sacred Headwaters, a vast alpine basin that is the shared birthplace of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine Rivers. Here, wild salmon, grizzly bears, mountain sheep, wolves and caribou take part in one of North America’s largest remaining intact predator-prey systems. The Tahltan First Nations people have hunted and trapped in the Sacred Headwaters for millennia.
Royal Dutch Shell plans to turn the Sacred Headwaters into a coalbed methane gas field scarred by a maze of wells, pipelines and roads.
There is a broad-based and growing grassroots campaign to keep Shell out of the Sacred Headwaters.
Website links of interest:
- Globe and Mail: Protest against Shell takes campaign to British media
- Skeena Watershed Coalition - Regional NGO
- Online action: send an instant e-mail to Shell and the BC government!
- YouTube: "Is British Columbia Nigeria North?"
- YouTube: First Nations blockade Shell, November 21, 2007
- Sacred Headwaters Photo Gallery
- Georgia Straight: "A coalbed methane battle is brewing"
- Wade Davis, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society speaks out on Shell's Sacred Headwaters project
- Where is the Sacred Headwaters? (Google Map)
- NGO letter to Shell regarding Sacred Headwaters
