Oil Sands

Featured, News December 18, 2020

Yakeleya calls for water summit after news of leaking oil sand waste

The Dene national chief is calling for a water summit after learning that toxic oil sands waste in Alberta is leaking near the Athabasca River. This comes after the Narwhal published an article confirming the oil sands stored in tailings ponds near Alberta’s Athabasca River, are leaking.  “In 2017, Environmental…

Environment, Featured, News July 15, 2020

SLFN Chief upset by suspended oilsand monitoring

'We have zero benefits from the oilsands projects, but we get 100 per cent of the environmental issues'


Smith’s Landing First Nation Chief Gerry Cheezie says his community has been battling Alberta on environmental practices for more than 50 years. So the fact the province suspended its environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, “is nothing new”. “We have zero benefits from the oilsands projects,…