{"id":60719,"date":"2023-09-27T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=60719"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:05:35","slug":"reaction-to-the-aer-review-of-its-response-to-the-imperial-toxic-tailings-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/60719\/reaction-to-the-aer-review-of-its-response-to-the-imperial-toxic-tailings-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to the AER review of its response to the Imperial toxic tailings leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>MONTR\u00c9AL \u2013 <\/strong>In reaction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/static.aer.ca\/prd\/documents\/board\/Board-third-party-review-report.pdf\">Alberta Energy Regulator<\/a>\u2019s commissioned independent review of the AER\u2019s internal processes and response to Imperial Oil\u2019s Kearl mine toxic wastewater leak, Greenpeace Canada climate campaigner Salom\u00e9 San\u00e9 said:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIf everything can go so wrong while the regulator claims it did everything right, it only means that the rot within the system runs deep. Apologies are meaningless if not accompanied by meaningful action to fix those systemic failures. The AER needs to take the concerns of impacted First Nations and M\u00e9tis communities seriously, because it is their communities\u2019 health and traditional ways of life that are on the line. Justice was not achieved today and we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous communities demanding the AER and Imperial Oil be held accountable for their irresponsibility and negligence.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Notes to editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>In early March 2023, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation revealed that a major spill of 5.3 million litres of toxic &#8220;tailings&#8221; occurred from Imperial Oil\u2019s Kearl mine in the Athabasca watershed in Northern Alberta. Imperial was aware of four other leaks that have been ongoing since at least May 2022 and did not report them.Greenpeace Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/58234\/greenpeace-calls-for-imperial-oil-to-be-charged-over-kearl-spill-projects-message-on-supreme-court\/\">called<\/a> for Imperial Oil to be charged over Kearl spill.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Adeoluwa Atayero, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:olu.atayero@greenpeace.org\">olu.atayero@greenpeace.org<\/a>; +1 306 501-1314<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTR\u00c9AL \u2013 In reaction to the Alberta Energy Regulator\u2019s commissioned independent review of the AER\u2019s internal processes and response to Imperial Oil\u2019s Kearl mine toxic wastewater leak, Greenpeace Canada climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":58242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"Reaction to the AER review of its response to the Imperial toxic tailings leak","p4_og_description":"Greenpeace Canada responds to the AER review of its response to the Imperial toxic tailings leak.","p4_og_image":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/04\/5e420c85-greenpeace-charge-imperial-oil-now-ottawa-19-april-2023-scaled.jpg","p4_og_image_id":"58242","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"Climate and Justice","p4_local_project":"peoplevsoil","p4_basket_name":"Oil","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4,125,125,3,3,5,5],"tags":[25,32,23],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":{"0":"post-60719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-climate","9":"category-equality","11":"category-nature","13":"category-our-work","15":"tag-energysolutions","16":"tag-oil","17":"tag-climate","18":"p4-page-type-press-release"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60720,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60719\/revisions\/60720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60719"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=60719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}