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National Chief calls for Indigenous worldview to influence climate change discussion
“Indigenous knowledge has to be front and centre when it comes to those solutions.” —Minister Catherine McKenna
Commission decision a ‘gut-punch’, so years-long battle over radioactive waste mound will continue
“You cannot sit there and tell me that over the next 550 years nothing is going to leach out of this mound and get in and make its way into the surrounding environment and waterways.” —Kebaowek First Nation Councillor Justin Roy
Alberta News in Brief for May 26
Leaders of Alberta Indigenous nations invited to speak to parliamentary committee on Kearl mine seep
“We are working with Indigenous nations on a long-term solution to the tailings ponds. The idea that we can simply continue to park large quantities of toxic water in these giant ponds is not a long-term solution to this.” — Environment and Climate Change Canada Minister Stephen Guilbeault
Mary Thomas: Elder worked to protect lands and promote culture
Indigenous think tank sounds alarm over Bill C-69
"This is the primary piece of legislation that governs some of the biggest conflicts between Indigenous people and the State, which is around resource development and extraction development.” — Research Director Shiri Pasternak, Yellowhead Institute
Canada’s support of Line 5 pipeline to come under scrutiny of United Nations
“Tribes in the U.S. and Canada…have worked for years to decommission Line 5 given the risks a catastrophic oil spill poses to their health, culture and environment.” —from a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council
Cat Lake forced to take legal action when Ontario granted permit to build road through territory
“We must always be vigilant in…ensuring that our peoples’ rights are always observed in any planning, any development that is proposed within that territory.” — Frank Mckay, chair and CEO for Windigo First Nations Council
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets are damaging to First Nations, says Merasty
“The Canadian government cannot take away our right as Indigenous people to decide for ourselves what is ethically, what is environmentally, and what is economically responsible. They can't take that decision away from us.” — Robert Merasty, executive director of the Indigenous Resource Network
Energy regulator stops short of addressing communications breakdown on Kearl tailings seepages
Fort Chipewyan Métis “at the mercy of the decisions of Alberta’s policy makers who are willing to sacrifice northeastern Alberta.” —Carmen Wells
First Nations children are suffering from food insecurity, study shows
“…for First Nations, food is not just about nutrition, but more importantly about culture, about the sacredness of food…” — Victor Odele, senior research and policy analyst for environmental health at the Assembly of First Nations
Saugeen Ojibway Nation reports impacts of Owen Sound Harbour contamination
“Canada has been very evasive, unresponsive, to various attempts of negotiation.” —Doran Ritchie, Saugeen Ojibway Nation Environment Office Resources Manager