Yukon arch seeks Trudeau’s assistance to stop U.S. oil drilling in caribou habitat

A Yukon First Nation wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meddle with a White House to stop a latest American pull to cavalcade for oil in frail Arctic caribou habitat.

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Chief Bruce Charlie of a Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation is hoping to have American skeleton to cavalcade for oil in a Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska combined to a bulletin of a assembly he is to have with Trudeau in early November.

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced support for Arctic oil drilling and Congress could have legislation on it prepared for Trump’s signature before Christmas.

Trump has already undone a anathema on offshore oil drilling in the U.S. Arctic implemented by former boss Barack Obama in Dec 2016, that was announced during a same time as Trudeau announced a duration on offshore drilling in a Canadian Arctic.

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The Gwitchin, a republic that includes some-more than 8,000 people across Alaska, Yukon and Northwest Territories, have been fighting opposite oil drilling in a retreat for 40 years, arguing it would severely mistreat a tact drift of a Porcupine caribou.

Charlie pronounced dual representatives from his village are going to Washington, D.C., subsequent week to join a designed day of movement opposite a drilling proposals and accommodate several members of Congress who could assistance stop a legislation from going forward.

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