oilsands wastewater

UN monitors thrust into debate over what to do with 1.4 trillion litres of oilsands wastewater

UN monitors thrust into debate over what to do with 1.4 trillion litres of oilsands wastewater

When the Mikisew Cree First Nation grew tired of warning elected officials that the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta was slowly drying up, they went international in a bid to find help. That’s how a group of United Nations monitors came to be seated in a community hall in the remote community of Fort Chipewyan last weekend, going over the nation’s list of concerns for Wood Buffalo National Park, the site of one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world and and home to endangered whooping cranes and the continent’s largest wild bison population.