There is high-quality, independent scientific research establishing that the waters downstream and downwind of the oil sands have been contaminated by toxic chemicals produced by bitumen extraction & upgrading. 1/ #abpoli @abndpcaucus #Alberta @KeepersOfWater @APTNNews
Notably, it is not Alberta Govt agencies that have done this research. Events like the one described in this article are not one-offs; they happen continually. "Leaks" and "spills" are the industry's way of releasing pollutants. It's the same in the petro-chemicals sector. 2/
These corporations are poisoning us incrementally, while govts responsible for protecting public health and the environment are complicit--complicit because they refuse to carry out effective monitoring and enforcement. 3/
A hand-slap like this is an exception to normal practice, and does not stop the ongoing harm. 4/
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Will Alberta ever have a govt that puts the public interest and the health & well-being of Indigenous peoples before the desire of oil & gas corporations to avoid paying for the costs of preventing environmental harms? 5/
The failure of Alberta govts to stop this is not only a form of criminal negligence, but out-and-out environmental racism. Wealth siphoned from the land at the cost of the well-being of Indigenous peoples. They cannot pretend they do not know. 6/
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