Athabasca Chipewyan

First Nation Tour brings truth to France on Tar Sands Development

Press Release - Monday May 16, 2011

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation worries plan threatens livelihood

carol.christian@fortmcmurraytoday.com

CAROL CHRISTIAN

Today staff

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation say the proposed regional land-use plan falls so short in protecting Treaty 8 rights, it creates legal risk for the province.

Living downstream of the oilsands development, the Athabasca Chip added that the draft Lower Athabasca Regional Plan released by the province last week does not protect enough land and resources to sustain their traditional livelihood.

Draft Land Use Plan Infringes Treaty 8

ACFN

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation responds to the Lower Athabasca Regional Land Use Plan.

First Nations demand Scotiabank withdraw funding for Northern Gateway pipeline

Wall Street Journal, Caroline Van Hasselt

TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Canadian aboriginal groups urged Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) not to fund Enbridge Inc.'s (ENB) proposed C$5.5 billion oil pipeline to Canada's west coast at the lender's annual meeting Tuesday.

Scotiabank, the third lender to be warned in the last two weeks, has raised more than US$10 billion for Enbridge since 2007, more than any other Canadian bank, First Nations youth leader Jasmine Thomas said at the meeting in Halifax, N.S.

BP faces investor revolt over Canadian oil sands project

Daily Telegraph - Rowena Mason

A group of pension funds and asset managers last month filed a resolution asking Royal Dutch Shell to reconsider its involvement in the exp

Two Fortune 500 firms wash their hands of the tar sands

Toronto Star - Mitch Potter

WASHINGTON-Canada’s controversial tar sands industry took its first retail blow Wednesday as two Fortune 500 companies announced plans to eliminate the high-carbon Alberta fuel from its supply chain.

Oilsands dumping equivalent of a tanker full of bitumen into Athabasca waterways each year; toxins fifty times higher downstream

Edmonton Journal - Hanneke Brooymans

EDMONTON - Levels of toxic chemicals in the Athabasca watershed are up to 50 times higher downstream of oilsands developments, a new University of Alberta study says.

The research, spearheaded by renowned aquatics ecologist David Schindler, also estimates that Suncor and Syncrude deposit the equivalent of what it describes as an oil spill's worth of bitumen into the surrounding environment each year.

The study was published Monday in the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Indigenous women tour UK to raise awareness of tar sands devastation, abuse of Indigenous rights

CBC news

Three aboriginal women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of a 10-day tour to raise awareness around human rights issues occurring in the Alberta tarsands.

The tour, made up of two women from northern Alberta and one from Saskatchewan, is timed to create awareness in the run-up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December.

"The [Canadian] government is in an environmental catch-22 predicament," said Heather Milton-Lighting from the Pasqua First Nation in Saskatchewan.