‘Trust is gone’: First Nation battles oil company and Alberta over toxic water

Chief Allan Adam says Imperial Oil and energy regulator ‘covered up’ failures over mine waste seeping from four tailings ponds

Throughout the summer and into the fall, members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation ventured out on to the land as they do every year, hunting and fishing the streams and boreal forest of their community in western Canada.

Over those same months last year, however, toxic water had been leaking from an oil sands operations upriver.