The federal government, local Indigenous communities and the public at large were not informed of the leak last May until months afterward
Water tainted with dangerous levels of arsenic, dissolved metals and hydrocarbons has beennorth of Fort. McMurray, Alta., since May, including next to a small fish-bearing lake and tributaries to the Firebag and Muskeg rivers.
Both came to ECCC’s attention after the Alberta regulator issued an environmental protection order against Imperial Oil, and posted it online on Feb. 7. The regulator has not answered multiple questions from The Globe and Mail about when it first notified the federal government about the continuing seepage at Kearl, which has leaked an unknown volume of contaminated water into the environment, but said in a statement on its website it is “committed to transparency.”
Meanwhile, environment ministers from Alberta and the Northwest Territories met Thursday to discuss a bilateral water agreement that the territory says Alberta breached by withholding information about the Kearl incidents.
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