November-2026-Newsletter-2

Xatśūll First Nation has terminated all agreements it held with Spanish Mountain Gold (TSXV: SPA), leaving the company without a formal framework with one of the three First Nations on whose territories its flagship gold project sits. The Nation said it gave notice in April that it was immediately ending a 2021 engagement protocol, and […]

Xatśūll First Nation has terminated all agreements it held with Spanish Mountain Gold (TSXV: SPA), leaving the company without a formal framework with one of the three First Nations on whose territories its flagship gold project sits. The Nation said it gave notice in April that it was immediately ending a 2021 engagement protocol, and […] The post Spanish Mountain Gold Says Talks With Xatśūll Continue After Nation Terminates 2012 and 2021 Agreements appeared first on the deep dive.

Xatśūll First Nation had applied to stop construction on the project.

Xatśūll First Nation had applied to stop construction on the project.

More than a decade after the catastrophic collapse of the Mount Polley tailings dam, BC has decided to approve another dam expansion at the very same site. But not if Xatśūll First Nation can help it.

Actor Kelly William grew up in Xatsull First Nation, north of Williams Lake, and his career has already taken him North of North

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

Leaders of Xatśūll First Nation say the provincial government has stepped on Aboriginal title rights and skirted environmental protections in a rush to approve expansion of a previously problematic mine site

Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.

Xatśūll First Nation had applied to stop construction on the project.

More than a decade after the catastrophic collapse of the Mount Polley tailings dam, BC has decided to approve another dam expansion at the very same site. But not if Xatśūll First Nation can help it.

Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.

The company could resume adding mine waste to the facility next week. The harm would be irreversible, the First Nation says.

B.C. Supreme Court sides with Xatśūll First Nation, pausing additional tailings at Mount Polley mine

Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.

Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste that had inundated their territorial waters.