{"id":29102,"date":"2017-05-25T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/mallott-holds-transboundary-mines-meeting\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:13:22","slug":"mallott-holds-transboundary-mines-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mallott-holds-transboundary-mines-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallott holds Transboundary mines meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed Canadian mining projects on several shared rivers in Southeast Alaska has alarmed tribes, fishermen and environmental groups for years.<\/p>\n<p>They say lack of Canadian mining regulation and a track record of harm to the environment have made them fear for the future of Southeast salmon stocks and subsistence and commercial fishing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago, in an effort to increase cooperation between the State of Alaska and British Columbia, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott was tasked with drafting a Statement of Cooperation with B.C. over these proposed mining projects.<\/p>\n<p>In a public meeting today at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall, Mallott wants to update the public on the SOC&rsquo;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting lasts from 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. with an unscheduled break for lunch. Mining officials will make presentations, followed by question and answer sessions. There will also be time for dialog between attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Find a draft agenda, the SOC and a map of the transboundary region at <a href=\"http:\/\/ltgov.alaska.gov\/services\/transboundary-relations\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ltgov.alaska.gov\/services\/transboundary-relations\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed Canadian mining projects on several shared rivers in Southeast Alaska has alarmed tribes, fishermen and environmental groups for years. They say lack of Canadian mining regulation and a track record of harm to the environment have made them fear for the future of Southeast salmon stocks and subsistence and commercial fishing in the area. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":29103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29102"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}