ACWA’s 2023 Year End Update

ACWA’s 2023 Year End Update

ACWA and local conservation groups continued throughout the year to work with the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan in opposing the Palmer Project, the copper-zinc mining development in the upper Chilkat Valley. The exploratory effort is controlled and funded by the...
The Guardian Article on the Palmer Project

The Guardian Article on the Palmer Project

For 2,000 years, Jones Hotch’s ancestors have fished Alaska’s Chilkat River for the five species of salmon that spawn in its cold, clean waters. They have gathered berries, hunted moose and raised their families, sheltered from the extremes of winter by the black,...
Curtain Opens on DOWA and the Palmer Project

Curtain Opens on DOWA and the Palmer Project

For more than a decade, Constantine Metals Resources (CMR) has played a public relations game with the communities of Haines and Klukwan, posing as a caring, majority controlling interest in the proposed copper-zinc mine known as the Palmer Project.  Their goal...