Federal environment minister says Alberta silence over oilsands spill 'worrisome' ableg abpoli cdnpoli
Neither local First Nations, the federal government, nor other jurisdictions that share the watershed such as the Northwest Territories were informed of the seepage or kept updated. It wasn’t until Feb. 7 that the Alberta Energy Regulator publicly released an environmental protection order — after another 5.3 million litres of tailings at Kearl escaped from a catchment pond.
In Alberta, such incidents are normally reported first to the Environmental, Dangerous Goods and Emergencies call centre operated by Alberta Transportation, a government ministry. Reports involving the oilpatch are then passed to the regulator. But the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation have both criticized the United Conservative Party government’s silence on the spill, saying their people harvested on lands near the spill for months without knowing of the potential hazards.
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