Leaders from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta are calling for action after the discovery of a leak from a major oil sands project. But so far, the company has only promised to monitor the situation.
"It kinda upset me a little more and it resurfaced all the emotions," she said.
A Fort Chipewyan resident demands answers from Imperial Oil at Wednesday's town hall. The meeting was held to address concerns about seepage from the company's Kearl Lake oilsands project.Archie Cardinal, who lives off the land and raises his three sons, aged 13, 15 and 17, in Fort Chipewyan, said it hurt that the community was not initially told about the leak.
Since the Kearl mine in northern Alberta began production on Treaty 8 territory in 2013, the company has touted technological innovations that they say “enhance environmental performance.” Yet for months, wastewater from the mine’s tailings ponds, containing arsenic, hydrocarbons and sulphides has been seeping into the land. The company that runs the mine, Imperial Oil, first reported the leak in May 2022 to the provincial regulator.
Work continues near the location where millions of litres of wastewater leaked at the Kearl oilsands site in Alberta's Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.Imperial Oil refused CBC News's request to speak with Long after the meeting and instead provided an interview with spokesperson Christine Randall.
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