Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
A judge has ordered the Yukon Water Board to reconsider a land use approval and water licence application from a Dawson-area placer operation. Yukon Supreme Court Deputy Justice Adele Kent, in a decision last month, wrote that the board's denial of Fellhawk Enterprises Ltd.'s application in 2022 was unreasonable and based on ungrounded speculation.
