Alaska: Chickaloon Village Presents Its Case Against Coal Mining To United Nations Expert On ...

Alaska: Chickaloon Village Presents Its Case Against Coal Mining To United Nations Expert On The Human Right To Water   Chickaloon Native Village, a federally-recognized Athabascan Indian Tribal government in Alaska, filed a communication to the United Nations Independent Expert on the human right to water and sanitation in conjunction with her first official visit to the United States, which began today.   Chickaloon Village’s submission asserts that the new open-pit coal strip mine in its...

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