Indigenous climate advocates say tailings spills study confirms what they already know

Ecologist Kevin Timoney published a Jan. 3 study showing that the Alberta Energy Regulator severely underreported the volume and environmental footprint of tailings spills over a decade.

Indigenous climate activist Eriel Deranger of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation speaks at the Edmonton Climate Strike in 2019. (Flickr/Abdul Malik)

This story was originally published in Alberta Native News.

A recently released scientific study on the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) poor monitoring of tailings spills merely confirms what Indigenous people…