The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is suing Alberta’s energy regulator for not telling it for almost a year that water tainted with dangerous levels of arsenic and other toxins was seeping from the Kearl oil sands project into public lands and waterways near the community.
Even as the province collected $50-million a month in royalties from the Kearl project, the regulator took no steps to notify the community about the contamination of land and water, or consult it about how best to mitigate the impact to members’ rights and way of life, it adds. “We’ve had enough,” Mr. Adam told AER president and chief executive Laurie Pushor on Tuesday night, at a fiery meeting about the issue in Fort Chipewyan.Several AER officials accompanied Mr. Pushor to the meeting, where residents demanded answers about what they contend is a lack of regulatory oversight of the oil sands.
Ms. Schmidt said environmental testing to date has shown no indication of adverse impacts to wildlife or fish populations in nearby river systems, or risks to drinking water.
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