The federal environment minister said Alberta was silent about the spill for nine months but should have notified Ottawa within 24 hours.
He said Ottawa can’t fulfil its duties around environmental enforcement if provinces keep it in the dark about problems.Alberta Energy Regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing Kearl oilsands leak: lawyerImperial Oil reported brown sludge outside one of its tailings ponds at its Kearl mine about 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta., last May. Over the summer, the sludge was found to be tailings seeping from the pond containing high levels of toxins such as arsenic.
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.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has blamed Imperial for the slow communications around the releases and demanded what she called “radical transparency” from energy companies. But the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation have both criticized the United Conservative 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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