Mount Polly Review Released
The message from Environment Canada is that the Mount Polley tailings dam was built on weakened soil, and that the environmental rules as-they-exist are good enough. The post Mount Polly Review...
View ArticleParliament Hill hears from advocates against fracking
It is becoming clearer and harder to deny that the oil, energy, and resource extraction industries have negative effects on water quality in their surrounding ecosystems. For the Athabasca – Peace...
View ArticleAlberta Forest Fire Threatens Ecosystems, Industry
Forest fires in North-Eastern Alberta have brought roughly 9% of the Oil Sands industry to a halt. Crews have been evacuated from various work sites, and other sites have been left inaccessible by road...
View ArticleLearning Together: The global struggle of land and industry.
As reported by APTN, two delegates from Australian Indigenous groups, the Wangan and Jagalingou Family Councils, stopped in Alberta last week as part of a world tour to raise awareness of a mining...
View ArticleHonour the Treaties Concert to be Rescheduled
View image | gettyimages.com “I am sad to say that I must postpone the July 3 Honour the Treaties concert at Edmonton’s Rexall Place in support of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations legal defence,”...
View ArticleACFN Stands Behind Oil Sands Moratorium
Earlier this month, a group of Canadian and U.S. scientists published a letter calling for significant and mandatory changes to the Oil Sands Industry as it operates today. There are names of 100...
View ArticleUNESCO Moves to Investigate Threats to Wood Buffalo National Park
UNESCO has responded positively to Mikisew Cree First Nation's petition to list Canada's emerald jewel, Wood Buffalo National Park, as in danger. In Germany on Wednesday, UNESCO agreed to launch a...
View ArticleAlberta Auditor General Says Oilsands Piggybank Too Tiny
Today the Auditor General of Manitoba, Merwan Saher, blasted the provincial government for not requiring oilsands companies to cough up enough cash in advance in order to clean up and remediate...
View ArticleFrontier Oils Sands delayed by 5 years
A new Oil Sands development north of Fort McMurray – just upstream from Fort Chipewyan – has been delayed by 5 years, Teck Resources announced yesterday. The reasons given have to do with oil prices...
View ArticleCanada’s Premiers to release national energy strategy
View image | gettyimages.com Today, Canada’s provincial Premiers released the collaborative Canadian Energy Strategy to guide nation-wide energy industry development, which includes pipeline projects....
View ArticleNexen Shutting Down After AER Suspends Pipelines
This is not the type of news one usually hears from the Athabasca Oil Sands. After the largest oil spill in Canadian history, and being slapped with a suspension of 95 pipelines by the Alberta Energy...
View ArticleFilm Fest to Feature One River Many Relations Documentary
The 16th annual Planet in Focus Film Festival will run from October 21st – 25th in Toronto, Canada. This year One River Many Relations is honored to be featured in the renowned film festival. The film...
View ArticleOne River, Many Relations Producer debates Oil Sands future with Economist,...
With constantly rising tensions between industry and the land and communities it affects, it is no surprise that many are struggling to understand and respond to their roles in what can be significant...
View ArticleOne River, Many Relations goes on TOUR!
The time has come! One River, Many Relations is going on tour and screening for the public. We’ve got plans for a short film tour that’s coming up soon, stopping in Winnipeg on November 2nd, London ON...
View ArticleStorytellers Film Festival – The Pas, Manitoba, March 20, 2016
One River, Many Relations is honoured and excited to be included in the upcoming ‘Storytellers Film Festival’ in The Pas, Manitoba. For the third year in a row, this festival celebrates storytelling as...
View ArticleWe are all standing with Fort McMurray
I saw this imagery of smoke from the Fort McMurray fire spreading over the continent and thought, how apt. Fort McMurray's ashes are spreading across Canada, and we are all sharing in the grief, but...
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