Indian clear cutting - Kerry Lake clear cut - Harley Chingee

On June 25, 2024, citing allegations of serious misconduct and theft, the McLeod Lake Indian Band Council announced it would no longer engage in meetings with Chief Harley Chingee while the band conducts an investigation. There has apparently been no news since. Treaty settlement lands that had been turned over to the McLeod Lake Indian Band were quickly turned into a lifeless, clearcut wasteland.

In just three years, much of the McLeod Lake Indian Band’s treaty lands were stripped bare of their trees in a flurry of logging that included one clearcut over 3,000 hectares in size. The Kerry Lake clear cut is a global disgrace. reception@mlib.ca

Harley Chingee, chief, is the only one who might know where his people's trees went, or where the money is. In the decade ending in 2021, nearly 1.9 million cubic metres of trees were wiped out.

hchingee@yahoo.ca

The band’s treaty settlement lands have been decimated with over 90% of the trees falling in the three years ending in 2020. They were worth $120m. There were 535 in the McLeod Lake Indian Band, most of which don't live in McLeod Lake.

In 2019 Harley Chingee was paid $126,000 plus $90,000 in expenses.