Keepers of the Water

We are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, environmental groups, concerned citizens, and community working together to protect life in the Arctic Ocean Drainage Basin.

[Keepers of the Water @KeepersOfWater]

This summer, we have partnered with Kátł'odeeche FN & @CAPE_ACME to host the 2024 Tu’de’gha’ Conference Aug 1 to 3/24, at 8:00 p.m. at the Chief Lamalice Complex in Hay River, NT. #WaterIsLife #Tudegha #NWT
Register here: https://t.co/Cg7teRoFbo

[Keepers of the Water @KeepersOfWater]

Indigenous Peoples in AlB Demand Surface Water Co-Management & Conservation Objective Rights
Indigenous Science (TEK) can no longer be ignored as the only viable solution to the climate chaos we are experiencing #WaterIsLife #ClimateChange #ProtectWater
https://t.co/AFaey8sIAv

[MSIFN - Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation @MSIFN]

Reposting as a reminder that in fact MZO's and "strong mayor powers" do not override the Duty to Consult with First Nations.
@TwpofScugog @ChiefsofOntario @AnishNation @envirodefence @OntarioNature #ONpoli @PaulCalandra @Andrea_Khanjin @RockCouncillor

[Stand.earth @standearth]

Have you ever been gaslit by one of the biggest funders of fossil fuels in the world? Our partners have. Check out what Citibank told them.

[Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation @ACFN_KaiTaile]

Leslie recounts oral histories shared by his uncle, Elder Paul Marcel about the impacts of losing access to harvesting areas in Wood Buffalo National Park after the 1926 expansion.

🔊“When [Wood Buffalo National Park] was expanded, was when the Dene people, the Chipewyan People of Fort Chip, were really affected.”
P. 124, 0:07-0:18

– ACFN Member, Leslie Wiltzen

🔖Read or listen to more in our book, Remembering Our Relations - University of Calgary Press (https://t.co/sKVfAEuwRi)

[Keepers of the Water @KeepersOfWater]

There’s only one week left in the opportunity to work with us as the Community Engagement Coordinator. Apply Today!
#KeepersOfTheWater #WaterIsLife #ProtectWater #WorkWithUsWednesday
https://t.co/sc7lBEKqps

[Keepers of the Water @KeepersOfWater]

This community still has the resilience to continue this decades-long fight for justice from willful mercury poisoning, while the threat of a nuclear waste DGR looms on the horizon.

[Free Grassy @FreeGrassy]

#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows #ShutDownDrydenMill https://t.co/gTxVdqgLiZ

[David Suzuki FDN @DavidSuzukiFDN]

Politicians and corporations are using ‘economic reconciliation’ as another greenwashing tactic, and Janelle Lapointe is calling it out as BS:
https://t.co/Gw9wwPI7NW
#TruthAndReconciliation

[Janis Irwin @JanisIrwin]

Grizzly bears are a threatened species. Yet the UCP have just sneakily declared the grizzly bear hunt back on.

MLA @ElmeligiSarah (an ACTUAL bear biologist) has been clear: killing grizzlies won’t reduce human-bear conflict.

I’m angry and so are many of you.

Let the UCP know.

[Larry Neufeld-@[email protected] @LarryNeufeldSK]

If you live in Canada, you should be alarmed. If you live in Ontario, you should be terrified #nuclearwaste #water #waterpollution #health #ChalkRiver #Ontario #Canada #NuclearEnergy @CAPE_ACME @KeepersOfWater @DavidSuzukiFDN @envirodefence @GreenpeaceCA https://t.co/8r2RDdGnIx

[Keepers of the Water @KeepersOfWater]

No updates on this industry-induced explosion and subsequent grass fire.

[janellelapointe.bsky.social @janellelapointe]

“Natural gas” caused fire near Edson, AB but there is so much pipeline infrastructure that they can’t tell if it’s from FortisAlberta, TransMountain Pipeline, Atco Gas, or AltaLink’s gas metering station.

https://t.co/12TjYaqaPk

[janellelapointe.bsky.social @janellelapointe]

Don't be deceived—economic reconciliation is still about resource control and corporate profiteering.

Read about the industry’s latest chess move in my piece for @TheBreachMedia: https://t.co/iDs9riWIxo

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

We are failing to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees.

For context, the recent fossil fueled climate disasters, freak flooding, arctic “zombie fires”, “rain bombs”, are happening with just 1 degree of warming. Unless we stop expanding fossil fuels, it’s going to get a lot worse.

[Keepers of the Water @KeepersOfWater]

To those in the way back who need things mapped out visually. This is the harm that frontline communities have endured, & it's still coming: extraction expansion—a map of ongoing health battles, like high rare bile duct cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan. #WaterIsLife #climatechange

[Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation @ACFN_KaiTaile]

A useful overview from @ecojustice_ca on tar sands, toxic chemicals in tailings ponds, environmental racism, and the recent federal government decision to assess the toxicity of naphthenic acids:
https://t.co/5BAYsOkXCe #cdnpoli

[Sol Mamakwa @solmamakwa]

ICYMI: The north is not empty land.

It’s the homelands and treaty territories of so many people across Kiiwetinoong.

The land isn’t begging for drill holes and mining .

[Gidimt’en Checkpoint @Gidimten]

1) We have another week coming up in the colonial courts attempting to criminalize us. This week will be part of our Abuse of Process claim.

Please join us in Smithers at the court house from June 17-21 9-4 each day.

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

In Canada, we have a new term for fossil fueled fire weather: zombie fires. A burning under the snow in the permafrost that sparks after the melt. They’re hard to spot marking them all the more devastating. And they’ll only get worse as the climate warms. This is an emergency.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Huge win. Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet: https://t.co/u0fXL0pQZS

Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate

[Stand.earth @standearth]

Canada’s big banks are world leaders - in financing the climate crisis.

Later today, for the first time ever, they will testify before Parliament to answer for their role in financing the climate crisis.

#BankersOnTrial

https://t.co/0sB3slhMit