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March 14, 2024


Gitanyow Condemns B.C. Government’s Move To Proceed With Ksi Lisims LNG Review

NationTalk: Gitanyow Lax’yip, March 14, 2024: Premier Eby’s push for the expansion of LNG development directly contradicts his promises on climate action, exacerbating the very crisis he claims to combat. The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs (GHC) condemn the Premier’s hypocrisy and dismissal of their plea to assess the impacts of the Ksi Lisims LNG project thoroughly....

March 11, 2024


First Nations, Métis and environmental groups request investigation of harmful tailings pond substance

NationTalk: OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – In January 2024, Canada announced their decision to not include naphthenic acids in the list of regulated substances in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Environmental groups and a First Nation have submitted a formal request for the federal government to assess the harms caused by...

March 8, 2024


Why this First Nation is Right to Sue the Alberta Energy Regulator over Last Year’s Toxic Tailings Leak

NationTalk: Environmental Defence – Last year, one of Imperial Oil’s mines in the tar sands leaked toxic industrial waste into the surrounding environment. Instead of informing downstream communities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) helped Imperial cover up the spill for over nine months. Now the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) – one of the downstream...

March 6, 2024


‘Everything is going downhill’: Athabasca Fort Chipewyan files lawsuit against Alberta regulator over Kearl spill

Reaction mixed to spill and whether tar sands are harming environment. Jean L’hommecourt co-chair of the Keepers for the water holds up a sign at Tuesday’s meeting. Photo: Danielle Paradis/APTN.  APTN News: At a tense community meeting, Athabasca Fort Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Chief Allan Adam served the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) with lawsuit papers...

February 16, 2024


First Nation challenges LNG project over climate, salmon concerns

An artist’s rendering of the Ksi Lisims LNG project in northern B.C. Screenshot Canada’s National Observer – Gitanyow is prepared to challenge Ksi Lisims, even through the courts, over what they say is “one-sided and industry-driven” consultation on its LNG project in northern B.C. The nation is concerned about the climate and environmental impacts, particularly...

February 14, 2024


PM dismisses Algonquin concerns over Chalk River nuclear waste dump

Trudeau touts nuclear safety commission’s expertise as Bloc leader allies with First Nations CBC Indigenous: Algonquin leaders are finding the Canadian government largely unmoved, but they continue to fight construction of a radioactive waste dump on unceded territory near Deep River, Ont., roughly one kilometre from the Ottawa River. First Nations chiefs have allied with Bloc Québécois and federal Green...

February 14, 2024


First Nations urge Environment Minister not to green light Chalk River nuclear waste dump 

The Globe and MaIl: Ottawa – Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault was urged by First Nations chiefs Wednesday not to issue a permit to allow a nuclear waste dump on a forested site northwest of Ottawa where a variety of wildlife, including “at risk” wolves, live. Ten chiefs and members of First Nations in Quebec and...

February 13, 2024


First Nations say Ring of Fire development could have negative effects on water systems

First Peoples Law Report: CTV News – There are concerns from Indigenous leaders and community members about the development of mines, including the Ring of Fire in the far reaches of northern Ontario. At a three-day annual lands and resources forum in North Bay, members of the Anishinabek Nation expressed fears that further development could...

February 8, 2024


Report on Alberta emission ‘astonishing’ says Athabasca Chipewyan chief

APTN News: When Allan Adam read a joint study from Yale University in the United States and Environment Canada, he says it affirmed everything his community has been finding for years. “We’ve been doing our own community-based monitoring program probably back in 2010, 2009. We do water sampling and everything and stuff like that. We’ve...

February 6, 2024


Indigenous and Environmental Groups Denounce Government Inaction on First Anniversary of Imperial Oil Tailings Disaster

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, KEEPERS OF THE WATER NationTalk: Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – A year ago, news broke that Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine had been leaking toxic industrial wastewater for over nine months while keeping local Indigenous communities in the dark. The public only learned about the leak after a...

February 1, 2024


What will mining the Ring of Fire cost the planet?

Canada’s National Observer: The peatlands in northern Ontario have been absorbing carbon for thousands of years. File photo Listen to article When she learns mining companies have set their sights on the Hudson Bay lowlands, Lorna Harris raises the alarm — the region is home to the planet’s second-largest terrestrial carbon sink. The peatlands — also...

January 30, 2024


Eyes turn to B.C. as U.S. pauses approval of LNG projects

Canada’s National Observer: Climate advocates are calling on Canada to follow the lead of U.S. president Joe Biden and pause Canadian liquified natural gas projects. Joe Biden in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015. Wikimedia Commons / https://www.instagram.com/p/-4GT-WFwUS Listen to article Calls from climate advocates to follow the lead of the United States and pause Canadian liquified...

January 26, 2024


First Nations question the economic toll of shipping through the Salish Sea 

T’Sou-ke First Nation Chief Gordon Planes says shipping in the Salish Sea shouldn’t be free given the environmental impacts. Photo Rochelle Baker / Canada’s National Observer Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: Tsawout First Nation councillor John Paul Etzel stood up and posed a central question for hundreds of people gathered this week to preserve the...

January 25, 2024


Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds

Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels The Guardian: Toxic emissions from the Canadian tar sands – already one of the dirtiest fossil fuels – have been dramatically underestimated, according to a study. Research published in the journal Science found that air pollution from the vast Athabasca...

January 21, 2024


Federal Green deputy leader convicted of criminal contempt for Fairy Creek logging blockades

Angela Davidson participated in Fairy Creek protests that tried to block logging on Vancouver Island The Tyee: Victoria Times Colonist, – Federal Green Party deputy leader Angela Davidson — also known as Rainbow Eyes — has been convicted of seven counts of criminal contempt for her participation in the Fairy Creek logging blockades on Vancouver...

January 11, 2024


Radioactive waste site ‘shoved down our throats,’ critics say

From left: Lance Haymond, chief of Kebaowek First Nation; Dylan Whiteduck, chief of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg; Algonquin elder Verna McGregor from Kitigan Zibi; and Coun. Justin Roy of Kebaowek. Photo by Natasha Bulowski  Canada’s National Observer: Some First Nations and environmentalists are dismayed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s approval of a proposed storage facility...

January 10, 2024


Canada’s next big LNG project may be the sleeper climate issue of 2024

A delegate is silhouetted while walking past the ExxonMobil booth during the LNG2023 conference, in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, July 10, 2023. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: One of the biggest climate stories in Canada in 2024 might well prove to be a project that, so far at least, few...

December 19, 2023


More than minerals at stake in Ontario’s claim-staking boom

Northern peatlands are key to Canada meeting its climate commitments, but they are threatened by a boom in Ontario mineral claims. Cheryl Chetkiewicz/WCS Canada  CLIMATE JOURNALISM IS URGENT. HELP US RAISE $125,000 BY DECEMBER’S END. Goal: $125k $51,228 Donate Canada’s National Observer: With a click of a mouse, mining interests have laid claim to more...

November 30, 2023


Environmental Health study finds high levels of benzene at Aamjiwnaang First Nation, south Sarnia

NationTalk: LONDONNewToday.ca – An air exposure review of the Sarnia area, which looked at air quality dating back to 2015,  has found that there are elevated airborne concentrations of benzene. The final results of the Sarnia Area Environmental Health Project were released Wednesday evening in Point Edward. Benzene is a chemical that is clear or light-yellow in colour that is primarily used...

November 29, 2023


Caribou numbers will decline as long as Nunavut goes without land use plan says former premier

APTN News: Nunavut’s first premier says caribou numbers in the territory will continue to decline as long as it goes without a land use plan. Paul Okalik says one of the problems is that mining companies are allowed to operate on calving grounds. “These companies, they won’t be here in the long run,” says Okalik....

November 28, 2023


First Nations group says environmental impacts of B.C. salmon fish farm industry overstated

APTN News: A councillor with the Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation in British Columbia says uncertainty in the open-net salmon farm industry is negatively affecting First Nations that rely upon it. “This overall industry supports a 99 per cent employment rate within my community and 51 per cent of its overall economy is represented in this sector,”...

November 24, 2023


Federal committee forces another round of Kearl questions on Alberta Energy Regulator

Alberta Energy Regulator president and CEO Laurie Pushor answers questions from reporters immediately after testifying before the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on April 24, 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: A federal committee is forcing the president of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) to testify for a second...

November 24, 2023


Third Imperial Oil infraction raises Indigenous communities’ environmental alarm bells

Released sentiment due to a culvert collapse causing stress in Fort Chipewyan  Aerial photograph from Kearl tarsands site. Photo: Danielle Paradis/APTN  APTN News: Athabasca Fort Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam says he’s frustrated again with Imperial Oil Ltd. after learning that the Kearl oilsands facility had an incident where 670,000 litres from a settling...

October 26, 2023


Government of Canada Releases Interim Guidance on the Impact Assessment Act

NationTalk: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada – Attracting investment and supporting major job-creating projects requires regulatory certainty from all levels of government. Following the recent opinion by the Supreme Court of Canada on the Impact Assessment Act (IAA), the Government of Canada is setting a clear path forward for impact assessments in Canada to provide...

October 13, 2023


Former B.C. mining exec fined $30K for environmental violations — but First Nation says damage costs far more

Yellow Giant mine released excess waste water into wetland and waterways on Gitxaała territory in 2015 CBC Indigenous: The former executive of a now-bankrupt mining company has been fined nearly $30,000 for environmental violations dating back to 2015 — an amount that has led to competing appeals from both sides. The charges follow a July 7 ruling...

October 12, 2023


First Nation in B.C. ‘furious’ after federal government rejects order to protect owls

This June 1995 file photo taken in Point Reyes, Calif., shows a northern spotted owl. The chief of a British Columbia First Nation says members of his community are “furious” after the federal government reversed course on an emergency order to protect the endangered northern spotted owl. Photo: Tom Gallagher/The Canadian Press.  APTN News: The...

October 4, 2023


Coastal Gaslink Is Facing 11 More Potential Fines

The company’s current total for penalties is $800,000. But that number is likely to grow. The Tyee: B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office says it’s still considering nearly a dozen administrative penalties against the Coastal GasLink pipeline after issuing its heftiest fine so far to the project last month.  The recent fine, for $340,000, was a result...

October 3, 2023


Imperial Oil knew Kearl oilsands was leaking tailings into groundwater for years

Tailings samples are tested in Calgary on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh  Canada’s National Observer: The Canadian Press – Documents filed by Imperial Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the Kearl oilsands mine was seeping tailings into groundwater years before a pool of contaminated fluid...

September 25, 2023


Why First Nations Bear the Brunt of BC’s Drought

If we’re serious about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we need water policy reform. The Tyee: The state of drought in British Columbia is at a critical point, and government officials are watering down their responsibility to act. This points to widespread governmental policy failures in climate change, forest and mining...

September 22, 2023


Coastal GasLink fined $340,000 for erosion, sediment control challenges 

The Globe and Mail: Coastal GasLink has been fined $340,000 by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office for issues related to erosion and sediment control. Coastal GasLink, which is owned by Calgary-based TC Energy Corp. TRP-T +0.64%increase, said the fines stem from four inspections of its ongoing pipeline construction project that occurred in April and May of 2022....

September 13, 2023


‘They’re ramming it down our throats,’ Cold Lake First Nation Chief says of Pathways carbon capture project

Network to transport carbon from oil sands facilities and store it underground CBC Indigenous: The Chief of the Cold Lake First Nation said his community has concerns about a proposed carbon capture and storage network that’s the centrepiece of a plan by major oilsands producers to hit net zero by 2050.  The plan by the...

August 29, 2023


BCFNEMC and FNLC Call for Moratorium on Placer Mining in British Columbia

NationTalk: (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) )originally published on August 28) The BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council (BCFNEMC) and the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) urgently call on the British Columbia government to immediately impose a moratorium on placer mining claims and leases as highlighted in a recently released report prepared for...

August 10, 2023


Proposed radioactive waste dump in Deep River met with opposition at final hearing

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission heard final arguments Thursday CBC News: The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) held its final hearings in Ottawa on Thursday into a proposed radioactive waste disposal site further north in the Ottawa Valley that is fiercely opposed by Algonquin First Nation groups.  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) wants to build an engineered mound near the...

July 11, 2023


Yukon First Nation unhappy with cleanup of abandoned mine

The area has been a source of devastating contamination for decades. APTN News: A First Nation in Yukon is raising serious concern about the remediation work being conducted at an abandoned mine site and its asking the Yukon Water Board to intervene. The Mount Nansen mine lies on the traditional territory of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First...

July 5, 2023


Wood Buffalo National Park still on environmental threat list; UNESCO calls for action on oilsands

NationTalk: Canada’s National Observer – A United Nations body has affirmed earlier findings that Canada’s largest national park remains under environmental threats from dams, oilsands development and climate change. The UNESCO report, issued Friday, concludes that the vast Wood Buffalo National Park on the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary shouldn’t lose its place on the list of World Heritage Sites at this time. Some things in the...

June 20, 2023


Proposed Chalk River nuclear dumpsite violates UNDRIP, says Algonquin chiefs

‘We never agreed to this and it continues to be operated on our unceded territory.’  APTN News: Algonquin First Nations are calling on the federal government to abandon a proposed radioactive waste dump site on their unceded territories. On Tuesday, the Chiefs of Kebaowek First Nation, Kitigan Zibi First Nation, the Algonquin Secretariat and the...

June 5, 2023


The Lie of a Cleaner Oilsands

Pollution protections are stripped while Canada boasts progress. This is the history of promises made and betrayed. The Tyee: In May 2022 a tailings pond at Imperial’s Kearl Lake facility started leaking toxic waste into groundwater and outside its lease boundaries. The foul water, the product of bitumen mining, contained arsenic, sulphates and hydrocarbons and other...

May 31, 2023


Minister to delay plan for closure of B.C. salmon farms after pressure from industry, Indigenous chief

The Globe and Mail: The federal Fisheries Minister is delaying a decision on closing the remaining ocean-based salmon farms in British Columbia, after pressure from First Nations and the fish-farm industry. Joyce Murray had been expected in June to release a transition plan to move open-net fish farms out of B.C’s coastal waters, to land-based...

May 17, 2023


Tracing the toxic impact of B.C. coal mining

Concern is mounting over the effects of B.C. mines on aquatic life, with Indigenous groups, scientists and environmentalists in Canada and the U.S. saying action cannot be delayed. CBC News: South of the border, in Bonners Ferry, the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho is working to restore the population of Kootenai River white sturgeon. The landlocked...

May 4, 2023


Canada opens formal investigation into Imperial’s oilsands tailings leak in northern Alberta

Imperial first found discoloured water seeping from one of its tailings ponds in May CBC News: Federal environmental authorities have launched a formal investigation into a tailings leak at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced Thursday it is investigating a suspected contravention of the Fisheries Act,...

May 2, 2023


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues calls on Canada to shut down the Line 5 pipeline

NationTalk: THE GREAT LAKES | ANISHINABEK TERRITORY – Last Friday, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) recommended that Canada and the United States decommission the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. In the Final Report of its annual session, issued last week, the UNPFII recognized that Line 5 “jeopardize[s] the Great Lakes” and...

April 27, 2023


Canada oil sands leak heightens First Nations’ calls to clean up tailings

NationTalk: Reuters – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil’s (IMO.TO) Kearl oil sands mine. Many in the community hunt and fish downstream of...

April 20, 2023


Oilsands discharge into First Nations water supply latest example of exploitation

Indigenous lands are continuously exploited and delegated as sacrifice zones for the gains of the rich, powerful and white society.  Toronto Star: Once again Indigenous communities are bearing the brunt of the corruption, contamination and pollution of their territories by industry. Yet another oilsands corporation has dumped 5.9 million litres of oilsands “overflow” water and mud into...

April 20, 2023


Imperial Oil CEO ‘deeply apologetic’ in Commons committee testimony on oilsands tailings leak

Brad Corson says Imperial is still pumping wastewater into ponds that spilled Imperial Oil president and CEO Brad Corson presented himself as humbled and “deeply apologetic” on Thursday in Ottawa during testimony at a parliamentary committee studying the leak of oilsands wastewater into the northern Alberta ecosystem. In his opening statement, Corson acknowledged his company...

April 19, 2023


Suncor reports release of six million litres of water from settling pond on Fort Hills oil sands mine

The Globe and Mail: Almost six million litres of water with more than twice the legal limit of suspended solids was released from a pond at the Fort Hills oil sands project into the Athabasca River watershed over the weekend, the second large spill in the northern Alberta region this year. The water came from...

April 17, 2023


First Nations blast Alberta Energy Regulator at hearing; minister promises reform

Imperial first detected discoloured water near the oilsands site last May CBC News: Chiefs of First Nations affected by releases of wastewater from an oilsands mine excoriated Alberta’s regulator at a House of Commons committee hearing, calling it a system that serves the industry and not the public. “The [Alberta Energy Regulator] has zero credibility outside...

March 24, 2023


Northern Alberta residents demand answers from Imperial Oil after toxic leak from oilsands project

Imperial Oil v-p faces tough questions from Fort Chipewyan residents over Kearl Lake tailings pond seepage CBC News: There were sharp words and fiery exchanges this week at a town hall meeting between Imperial Oil and residents of Fort Chipewyan, Alta. It was the first time the company met with residents of the community on the western...

March 22, 2023


NWT Indigenous leaders call for investigation of oil sands’ impacts

Leaders of northern Indigenous peoples are calling for a “full, independent investigation” of the downstream impacts of oil sands pollution. CabinRadioThe call, issued at a water summit held in Inuvik last week, comes in the wake of controversy over months-long contamination emanating from Imperial Oil’s Kearl facility in northern Alberta. The Dene Nation, Inuvialuit Regional...

March 16, 2023


Ontario pledges $29M to protect boreal caribou — but the spending isn’t without criticism

4-year funding plan to support habitat restoration, protection and monitoring  CBC News: Ontario plans to spend $29 million to help protect an iconic — and threatened — species: boreal caribou. David Piccini, the provincial minister of environment, conservation and parks, made the announcement Wednesday at Lakehead University’s campus in Thunder Bay, Ont. The funding will be distributed...

March 15, 2023


First Nations living near Imperial Oil leak refuse to drink water from nearby reservoir

The Globe and Mail: A continuing leak at the Kearl oil sands project has left members of the nearby Mikisew Cree First Nation unwilling to drink or bathe in water from local waterways, fearing contamination from seepage that has lasted close to a year. Ottawa agreed Wednesday to cover the cost of bottled water and...

March 11, 2023


Sitting on a carbon bomb

CBC News: Under the ground in the B.C. Peace lies Canada’s largest potential source of greenhouse gases. Some want to leave it there. Others say we need the energy. One First Nation is uniquely positioned to play a key role. Elder Jerry Davis pulls his pickup truck over to the side of a road on...

March 9, 2023


Federal environment minister condemns delayed reporting of oilsands tailings leak

‘Our systems are failing Indigenous peoples, clearly,’ Steven Guilbeault says CBC News: Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Alberta’s silence about an oilsands tailing leak is a troubling failure that suggests the province needs more regulatory oversight. The release of at least 5.3 million litres of toxic tailings from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine should have been...

March 8, 2023


First Nation slams Premier Danielle Smith for ‘spin’ on huge oilsands project leak: ‘This is basic science’

A project in northern Alberta is under scrutiny after a First Nation raised alarm over a leak that it claims the province and Imperial Oil tried to hide. Toronto Star: EDMONTON—A First Nation in northern Alberta has slammed Premier Danielle Smith for downplaying a massive toxic spill from an oilsands tailings pond that the community is...

March 7, 2023


Indigenous chiefs fly to Ottawa in rival moves as salmon farm battle intensifies

The Globe and Mail: Indigenous chiefs representing B.C. Indigenous communities came to Ottawa on Tuesday to make opposing arguments about whether open-net salmon farms should be able to continue off the coast or be closed and moved to tanks on land. As the battle over the future of ocean-based salmon farms off the coast of British...

March 6, 2023


Ontario approves environmental assessment terms of reference for 3rd and final road to Ring of Fire

Plan co-developed and submitted by 2 First Nations in the area, but faces pushback from others in region CBC News: The province has approved the terms of reference for an environmental assessment (EA) on the third and final road leading to the mineral-rich Ring of Fire in northern Ontario. The terms of reference lay out the work...

March 6, 2023


Ontario and two First Nations agree on terms for last of three roads into Ring of Fire

The Globe and Mail: Ontario and two First Nations have agreed on terms of reference on an environmental assessment for the last of the three proposed roads into the Ring of Fire, a small step forward in the province’s ambitions to become a major player in electric vehicle minerals. Webequie, Marten Falls, and the province...

March 2, 2023


Alberta First Nation angry at Imperial’s silence while tailings pond leaked for 9 months

Band members have been harvesting food from land adjacent to the spills, chief says CBC News: 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. Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation...

February 24, 2023


One fish, two fish, red fish, dead fish? Feds fail to disclose Coastal GasLink data on salmon eggs, habitat

Pipeline contractors estimated there were at least 273,000 salmon eggs in a Wet’suwet’en river crossing. Fisheries and Oceans Canada said it was ‘impossible to confirm’ The Narwhal: Shannon McPhail said she felt like the “world’s biggest schmuck” after reading an email from a senior official at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The official told her it...

February 17, 2023


Fisheries department to shut 15 salmon farms off B.C.’s coast to protect wild fish

The Globe and Mail: Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia’s Discovery Islands. Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands area is a key migration route for wild salmon where narrow passages bring migrating juvenile salmon into close...

December 8, 2022


Tahltan’s decades-long struggle to protect Sacred Headwaters

David Suzuki Foundation: That’s just one of many revelations in the powerful new film The Klabona Keepers, about the Tahltan Nation’s struggle to protect the Sacred Headwaters, or Klabona, from mining. (The film, co-directed by my grandson Tamo Campos, is a collaboration between non-Indigenous filmmakers and Indigenous elders, who were given ownership of the intellectual property....

November 22, 2022


Standing Committee on Public Accounts to Hold Public Hearing on Auditor General Report on Physical Mitigation of Muskrat Falls Reservoir Wetlands

“PHYSICAL MITIGATION…” CONCLUSION: The Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment did not appropriately communicate and monitor the timelines and deadlines of the Independent Expert Advisory Committee recommendation for physical mitigation of the Muskrat Falls reservoir wetlands. However, we did not find any evidence that government intentionally missed the wetland capping deadline. There were numerous missed...

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