Calls for a public and independent inquiry continue to grow across the territory, including from the Dene Nation, community of Enterprise and residents in Fort Smith.
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The Alberta Energy Regulator’s president and CEO was in the hot seat Monday at a parliamentary committee meeting where MPs quizzed him on the regulator’s role in failing to quickly communicate information about multiple tailings leaks in northern Alberta to downstream communities and various levels of government.
Dene National Chief Gerald Antoine on Monday afternoon said production operations at Kearl Mine should be halted, an independent investigation should be done, and Imperial Oil should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, among other recommendations.
The recent revelation of a massive leak from Imperial Oil’s tailings ponds highlights the question of what to do with the rest of the oilsands waste accumulating along the Athabasca River.
Supreme Court Justice Shannon Smallwood threw out the warrant after Larry Innes, the defence counsel for Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation, applied to have it quashed. Neither of the lawyers for the territorial government objected.
On Sept. 13, ENR officers descended on Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation's cultural camp at Timber Bay, within the Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve and that has the community's MLA calling for a review and apology to ensure it never happens again.