Melody Lepine of the Mikisew Cree First Nation says the report is clearer than ever about what needs to be done.
on environmental threats to Canada’s largest national park shows the urgency of the problems, says a spokesman for the First Nation that originally brought concerns about Wood Buffalo National Park to UNESCO.
The park’s traditional users saw water levels in the park dropping year after year because, they felt, of British Columbia’s upstream Bennett Dam. They also feared growing oilsands tailing ponds posed a risk to water quality. The new report is an assessment of how well that plan is working. It concludes there’s no need to remove the park’s World Heritage status at this time and praises many of the plan’s initiatives, such as the creation of wildland buffer zones.
Lepine said those deadlines are the result of a visit the UNESCO team made to Fort Chipewyan, a community on the park’s boundary.Kearl oilsands: Alberta’s privacy watchdog investigating after leak goes unreported for months
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