Tag: Mackenzie River
First Nations, Territorial Government to Finalize Peel Land Use Plan
Leaders from the Government of Yukon and affected First Nations met in Dawson on January 29th to discuss next steps for finalizing the Regional...
B.C. and Yukon Sign Shared Waters Agreement
British Columbia Environment Minister Mary Polak and Yukon Environment Minister Pauline Frost have signed an agreement that pledges to co-operatively manage shared water in...
Rising Tensions
Named Deh Cho, or “big river,” by the Dene people, the Mackenzie River is one of the world’s few remaining large, free-flowing rivers, and...
WWF Releases Rivers at Risk Report
Our friends over at WWF-Canada have released a new report, Canada's Rivers at Risk: Environmental Flows and Canada's Freshwater Future (pdf here). The report...
