At least 30 abandoned, exploratory, proposed, developing, and operating B.C. mines are now located in the Taku, Stikine, and Unuk watersheds, as well as along rivers that drain into the transboundary Portland Canal. Virtually all of these gold-copper mines include multiple open pits and massive earthen mine waste dams. B.C. experts predict two mine waste dams in the province will fail every decade. Since Tribes and communities passed their resolutions, Canada and B.C. invited two gold mines – Eskay Creek in the Unuk watershed and New Polaris in the Taku watershed – to enter the provincial Environmental Assessment process, ignoring almost a decade of calls for binding international watershed protections for globally significant rivers.