The Teck Frontier Mine has already received a recommendation for approval from the oil industry dominated, Federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA). The CEAA review found that the project would directly impact the treaty rights of First Nations in the region and would also be devastating to both the ecosystem and endangered species like the Wood Buffalo and the whooping crane. Indigenous Climate Action supported a delegation of frontline Indigenous youth to attend the UN Climate negotiations to pressure Canada and the Minister for Environment and Climate Change Wilkenson to meet Canada’s legal obligations to both the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Paris Agreement climate targets. Approving Teck would make this impossible.

“The largest tar sands mine on the planet is being proposed in native peoples' territory right now, it will impact the woodland buffalo, the last remaining wild whooping cranes on the planet and many of the animals my people rely on for food. aside from the detrimental impacts, it will have on native people's food security, treaty rights, and water, It will add 6.1 million megatons of carbon annually to the atmosphere. We must force Canada to reject teck.

Inside the UN Climate negotiations in the afternoon, a second reject teck protest supported by Indigenous Climate Action took place.

"It is unacceptable that Canada is pushing narratives around reconciliation while simultaneously pushing these projects through our lands, right now in Canada land defenders and water protectors are being forcibly removed from their lands to make way for these projects by armed forces. Canada is responsible for the land it has stolen, responsible to the climate it has disregarded over profit, so we as Indigenous youth are here to say climate leadership must be Indigenous-led, our way of stewarding land needs to be respected. We need to reject teck. '' Ta'kaiya Blaney, Member of Tla'amin Nation.

“This Teck Frontier mine is going to be a complete carbon bomb on Mother Earth, if Teck Frontier is built we will see the world begin to unravel. This is why we are here at COP 25 and this is why we have to reject Teck.” Said Nigel Henry Robinson, Indigenous Climate Action Youth Delegation Lead and member of Cold Lake Dene Nation.