Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

Three northern Alberta First Nations are asking to appeal the province's suspension of environmental monitoring in the oilpatch because it "fails to come close" to being a reasonable decision.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation sought to block the expansion of Syncrude Canada Ltd's Mildred Lake oilsands operation in a filing to the province's energy regulator, adding another indigenous legal challenge to the region's resource exploitation.

The federal government is opposing a pitch by Alberta's United Conservative Party for intervener status in an upcoming court case in Saskatchewan over the national carbon tax.

"This is what 54 years of continued denial of Indigenous rights for oil and gas profits looks like. This is white supremacy at work."

Chief Allan Adam says he has always tried to balance the environment, public health and economic development issues. But he doesn't want people to call him an environmentalist.

An Alberta First Nation says court documents suggest political and industry pressure hustled approvals for an oilsands pipeline through regulators and reduced aboriginal consultation.

Chief Allan Adam says inaction from the provincial government is forcing his First Nation to reactivate a court challenge to an approval for a major oilsands pipeline already under construction.

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