News Releases and Advisories
Yukon Government rejects ATAC’s proposed road in Beaver River Watershed
Whitehorse, Yukon – Last week, the Government of Yukon advised ATAC Resources Ltd’s that it has rejected their proposed 65 km exploration road that would cut through the Beaver River Watershed. This comes after years of opposition from citizens of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun, Yukoners, and CPAWS Yukon together with other conservation [Learn more]
TD’s new climate policy rules out funds for oil and gas development in the Arctic Refuge; Arctic as a whole.
TD’s new climate policy rules out funds for oil and gas development in the Arctic Refuge; Arctic as a whole.The Toronto-Dominion bank (TD) unveiled its new Climate Action Plan today, including a pledge to withhold financing for oil and gas extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—and the Arctic as a whole. TD is the [Learn more]
Canadian environmental groups call on banks to not fund drilling in the Arctic Refuge
We represent some of Canada’s most prominent environmental organizations, with hundreds of thousands of members and supporters across the country. We strongly oppose oil and gas development on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and urge your company to enact a policy to screen out financing for such projects. [Learn more]
RBC becomes the first Canadian bank to rule out funding for Arctic Refuge drilling
Whitehorse, Yukon – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced today that it will withhold financing for oil and gas extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. RBC is the first Canadian bank to enact a policy on the Arctic Refuge, following the lead of major banks in the United States and overseas. RBC’s commitment [Learn more]
Yukon’s newly released Parks Strategy sets an important vision for healthy wild spaces
Whitehorse, Yukon – Today the Government of Yukon released the Yukon Parks Strategy, to guide the establishment and management of territorial parks. As climate change and habitat degradation threatens wildlife populations across the globe, this strategy provides a framework for lessening these impacts and ensuring that the Yukon’s plants, animals, and landscapes can stay healthy [Learn more]
CPAWS Yukon joins litigation on Arctic Refuge
The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups took Trump’s Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to court today for finalizing an illegal leasing program that would hand over the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the oil and gas industry. [Learn more]
U.S. releases Record of Decision on Arctic Refuge drilling
CPAWS Yukon is the only Canadian organization in the coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups that is working to defend the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas development. CPAWS Yukon has worked with the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Gwich’in Tribal Council to encourage Canadian participation throughout the environmental review process, and to urge Canada’s largest banks to withhold funding for Arctic Refuge drilling. [Learn more]
Resource roads threaten wildlife and wilderness: CPAWS Yukon report
Whitehorse, YT – New resource road projects could transform the Yukon’s wilderness and jeopardize wildlife—warns a report released today by CPAWS Yukon. Titled Eroding the Yukon’s wild character, the report describes the ecological impacts of roads and the challenges they pose to the Yukon’s environmental review system. Ecologists have called roads a sleeping giant among [Learn more]
Statement on Vivian Krause at the Yukon Geoscience Forum
As part of our work, we regularly attend planning and policy meetings, where we sit across the table from people of all walks of life – and this regularly includes our colleagues from the mining sector. That is why we are disappointed to see that Vivian Krause has been invited to speak at the Yukon Geoscience Forum on November 16th. [Learn more]
U.S. Government pushes to drill in the Arctic Refuge as the U.S. House of Representatives passes conservation legislation.
Today the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is the latest move in its push to authorize drilling in the Refuge, a process marked by rushed timelines, the silencing of scientists, and limits on public involvement. [Learn more]