Allan Adam

Efforts to investigate damage from contaminated wastewater onto Indigenous lands in Alberta are crucial, but won’t undo the years of damage from weak enforcement of Canada’s environmental laws.

Following years of advocacy and struggle, Indigenous nations downstream of the oilsands have received funding to understand the diseases they argue are a direct cause of the fossil fuel industry.

A massive carbon capture project in Canada’s oilsands should require an environmental impact assessment, say a local First Nation and environmental groups who are calling on the provincial government to make it happen.

Alberta's New Democrat Opposition and a prominent First Nations leader are calling for a review of the province's energy regulator to be held in public, with public input.

Premier Danielle Smith says laggardly public notification of Imperial Oil oilsands wastewater spills has illuminated the need for Alberta to ensure future alarms are sounded quicker.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food.

Oil sands opponents Neil Young, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have all befriended Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca-Chipewyan First Nation.