Southeast Alaskans, anxious about B.C.’s mining boom along the Alaskan border, are pinning their hopes for stronger mine management on a treaty that dates back more than a century.
The International Joint Commission (IJC), operating under the Boundary Waters Treaty since 1909, is a body with six appointed members —three from Canada and three from the U.S. — used to resolve water or air conflicts between the two countries.
However, although the commission appears to be tailor-made to deal with the concern over B.C. mines in the headwaters of Southeast Alaska’s most important (Read more…)