The provincial government has announced a deal with the Tahltan Central Council and Shell Canada to end natural gas drilling in the Klappen area of northwestern BC.
A four-year moratorium on the drilling expired today.
As part of the deal, Shell is immediately relinquishing its tenures and the government won’t issue any future petroleum and natural-gas tenures in the area.
In return, Shell is getting 20-million do
llars worth of royalty credits to build a new water recycling plant.
The Tahltan nation consider the Klappen or Sacred Headwaters area to have significant cultural, spiritual, and social values.
It includes the major salmon-bearing rivers like the Stikine, Nass, and Skeena.
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