44 Hucknall Road Toronto, ON M3J 1V8 September 27, 2017 To: The UCC General Council Executive for its November 2017 meeting From: The United for Mining Justice Network Dear friends: The United for Mining Justice Network was established as a United Church advocacy network at a national gathering in 2013. The Network held a national meeting at the Sandy-Saulteaux Centre May 5 to 7, 2017. The gathering included United Church members and ecumenical and indigenous friends of the N

This letter was first published in The United Church Observer in September 2017 Dear Editor, I was the keynote speaker at the United for Mining Justice National Conference in Manitoba last month. I spoke of the 2014 Mount Polley Mine disaster that happened in my Secwepemc Territory in central British Columbia. We continue to feel the brute impacts from polluted water, severely declined salmon stocks, and a total lack of accountability from the mining company that dismisses a