Enoch Cree Nation Chief Cody Thomas says the federal government has a moral obligation to help clean up First Nations land where its regulator allowed oil and gas companies to abandon equipment and contaminants.
First Nation chiefs in Alberta say leftover money from a pandemic oil and gas site remediation program should stay in the province to clean up Indigenous land. First Nation chiefs in Alberta say leftover money from a pandemic oil and gas site remediation program should stay in the province to clean up Indigenous land.
"The failure to allocate those resources would mean abandoning over 2,000 sites on First Nations lands and territories," Enoch Cree Nation Chief Cody Thomas said at a news conference on Monday. More than 100 Indigenous-owned companies were responsible for about a third of the successful applications. During one phase of the program targeted at just Indigenous contractors, 1,824 inactive well sites were reclaimed, according to the province.
Loon River First Nation Chief Ivan Sawan described the scene on his reserve, which is 420 kilometres north of Edmonton.
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