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CRPE Clients
Kivalina Relocation Planning Committee, Kivalina, Alaska
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| Kivalina Relocation Planning Committee
members, from left to right, David Swan, Jerry Norton, Leroy
Adams, Enoch Adams, Jr., Andrew Koenig and Joseph Swan, Sr.,
meeting in Kivalina, Alaska. KRPC and its individual members
have sued the Red Dog mine for its continuing pollution near
Kivalina. |
The Kivalina Relocation Planning Committee (KRPC) is a group of
six community leaders in the Native Village of Kivalina in northwest
Alaska. The barrier island where the Village is located is slowly
eroding into the Chukchi Sea. As a result, the Village must find
a new home site. KRPC members Jerry Norton, Enoch Adams, Leroy
Adams, David Swan, Joseph Swan, and Andrew Koenig were selected
by their fellow villagers to represent the interests of the community
in this process. When the Kivalina City Council and Kivalina IRA
Tribal Council decided to take legal action against the Red Dog
Mine that was polluting the community’s fresh water supply,
they chose KRPC as the most appropriate body to investigate and
launch the litigation. Represented by the Center on Race, Poverty & the
Environment, KRPC filed suit in 2002. When the District Court in
Anchorage determined KRPC could not sue, CRPE filed suit on behalf
of the individuals who make up KRPC instead. That suit is ongoing.
[LINK TO KIVALINA, ALASKA and RED DOG MINE pages; also PRESS on
KIV suit]
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