Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 10
“I don’t care how many times they treat that contaminated water — it’s going to end up here,” said Alice Martin, a #Mikisew #Cree #elder with feathery gray bangs who was pleading with others to help make a plan to fight the #oilcompanies. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...

Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Can...
Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system.

The New York Times
Franke JamesMar 9, 2023

“There’s a real sense of of emergency and even panic,” said Mr. Guilbeault, Federal Environment Minister

“We’ve failed Indigenous communities & nations, & we need to do better. And it’s not just me saying it – I think you’ve heard the Premier of Alberta say things that are very similar to that.”

Mr. Guilbeault said he is talking with various federal depts “to see how, on our end, we can do better.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-imperial-oil-leak-indigenous/ #Kearl #Athabasca #Chipewyan #FirstNation #Mikisew #Cree First Nation

Alberta didn’t reveal Imperial Oil leak for months, says Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment minister Steven Guilbeault says Ottawa failed indigenous communities over ‘inadequate’ systems

The Globe and Mail