First Nations Issues

May

19

2021

Ecojustice in court to fight Coalspur Mines’ attempt to expand Vista thermal coal mine without federal impact assessment

Ecojustice

Keepers of the Water

Keepers of the Athabasca

West Athabasca Watershed Bioregional Society

CALGARY/TERRITORIES OF THE BLACKFOOT AND PEOPLES OF TREATIES 6 AND 7, HOME TO MÉTIS NATION OF ALBERTA, REGION III – Ecojustice is in court today and tomorrow on behalf of Keepers of the Water, Keepers of the Athabasca, and the West Athabasca Watershed Bioregional Society to fight against Coalspur Mines (Operations) Ltd’s attempt to overturn the designation of the Vista thermal coal mine expansion project for a federal impact assessment.

Source: Ecojustice

Ecojustice

Keepers of the Athabasca

West Athabasca Watershed Bioregional Society

Coal

Electricity Generation & Transmission

Environmental Law & Policy

Environmental Assessment

Fresh Water

Water & Watershed Management

First Nations Issues

Mining

Apr

13

2021

Provincial Coal Consultation - critical opportunity for public input

Alberta Ministry of Energy

Initiative:

Coal policy engagement

Deadline:

19 Apr 2021

Deadline April 19 to provide feedback on Alberta coal policy through an on-line survey

Water Use, Scarcity & Conservation

Indigienous Peoples Issues

First Nations Issues

Land Management & Stewardship

Mining

Toxics

Apr

12

2021

Supreme Court rules Canada's carbon pricing law is constitutional

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Photo of Supreme Court of Canada building in early evening

On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision regarding the challenges to the constitutionality of the federal government's carbon pricing system brought by the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. In its decision, the Court ruled 6-3 that the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was constitutional.

Climate Change

Environmental Law & Policy

First Nations Issues

Ecojustice

Issue Briefs

Mar

27

2021

Water NOT Coal : Solidarity Walk with Niitsitapi Water Protectors

Niitsitapi Water Protectors

Mar 27 2021 - 1:00pm

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Join Niitsitapi Water Protectors on Saturday, March 27 for a peaceful (socially distanced) walk to protect the Eastern Slopes from open-pit coal mining!

We will begin our walk at 1pm at Reconciliation Bridge in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 (Calgary).

Link: Facebook Event

Location

Reconciliation Bridge

Calgary , AB

See map: Google Maps

Feb

24

2021

Blackfoot Perspectives on Open-pit Coal Mining

Niitsitapi Water Protectors

CPAWS Southern Alberta

Feb 24 2021 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

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While Alberta recently reinstated it's Coal Policy, the threat of development of open-pit mines are still a threat to Blackfoot territory and Indigenous lands across the eastern slopes. Join us for a panel discussion to talk about the impacts coal will have on Indigenous peoples.

Register

Source: Facebook

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Coal

Indigienous Peoples Issues

First Nations Issues

Mining

Jun

26

2018

Canada’s failure to protect Wood Buffalo National Park to be raised at UNESCO meeting

Mikisew Cree First Nation

Alberta Wilderness Association

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Sierra Club BC

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

As UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee convenes this week for its annual meeting in Manama, Bahrain, Indigenous and environmental groups are calling on Canada to do more to protect its largest park, Wood Buffalo National Park.

Members of Mikisew Cree First Nation are in Bahrain to present to World Heritage Committee members. They will urge Canada to implement all seventeen of the Committee’s recommendations to ensure protection of Wood Buffalo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Alberta Wilderness Association

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Sierra Club of Canada

Biodiversity and Wildlife

Wilderness & Parks

First Nations Issues

Jul

05

2013

Tar Sands Healing Walk

Keepers of the Athabasca

Jul 5 2013 - 6:00am to Jul 6 2013 - 6:00am

The Healing Walk started in 2010 in Fort McMurray Alberta, which is located in the Northern Boreal Forest. Fort McMurray is in Treaty 8 where for the past 50 years there has been oil extraction. Initially the extraction was oil, it is now crude which is a much heavier form of oil and takes more energy and water to extract, making it one if the dirtiest oils on the planet.

For more information

Location

Crane Lake Park Fort McMurray , AB

See map: Google Maps

Keepers of the Athabasca

Climate Change

Fresh Water

Biodiversity and Wildlife

Apr

11

2011

Draft Athabasca Land Use Plan Infringes Treaty 8

First Nations in Oil Sands Region say that the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan does not protect enough land and resources to sustain their traditional livelihood and creates legal risk for Alberta

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

Fort McMurray - Alberta Government’s Department of Sustainable Resource Development, headed by Minister Mel Knight, released the draft Lower Athabasca Region Plan (LARP). The draft plan proposes a 16% increase to conservation areas in the oil sands region, which is significantly less than the recommendations from the Regional Advisory Council (RAC), who advised up to 32%, and considerably less than recommendations from First Nations.

Source: Sierra Club Prairie

Sierra Club of Canada

Land Management & Stewardship

Oil Sands

First Nations Issues

Apr

06

2011

COMMENTS: Sierra Club Prairie, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Local Cree Elder on Lower Athabasca Land Use Plan

Sierra Club Prairie

Please see comments below from Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Alice Martin a Local Cree Elder from Ft. Chipewyan, and Sierra Club Prairie Energy Campaigner Dustin Johnson on the Mel Knight's release of the Lower Athabasca Land Use Plan.

Source: Sierra Club Prairie

Sierra Club of Canada

Land Management & Stewardship

Oil Sands

First Nations Issues

Mar

24

2011

T’Sou-ke First Nation: The Most Solar-Intensive Community in Canada

Solar Energy Society of Alberta

Mar 24 2011 - 1:00am

Chief Gordon Planes with Andrew Moore – Project Director

Following a year-long visioning process the T’Sou-ke community embarked on a programme to achieve energy autonomy, economic self-sufficiency and food sustainability while utilizing the ancient wisdom and skills still available within First Nations communities. Their on-going achievements include three solar electric systems totaling 75kW, thirty eight residential solar hot water systems, and an ambitious energy efficiency programme along with indigenous plant propagation and food-producing greenhouses. In the process of building these many projects the T’Sou-ke First Nation has trained many young people in the solar and sustainability trades and inspired many other communities to follow their lead.

Source: Solar Energy Society of Alberta