Melina Laboucan-Massimo said she isn’t sure she understood what it meant to cry tears of joy until she saw the dazzling array of solar panels in her home community of Little Buffalo.
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The ice has been pushed away and water is rushing over the falls at Little Buffalo Falls Territorial Park near Fort Smith – an early spring draw for local paddlers.
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The Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) of Alberta issued four “high-risk enforcement actions” against Plains Midstream Canada last week in relation to the May 2011 pipeline spill that left the Lubicon Cree community of Little Buffalo drenched in oil for weeks.
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The Lubicon Lake Cree Nation set up multiple checkpoints throughout the oil and gas fields contained within its traditional lands last Wednesday in solidarity with Idle No More actions taking place across the country, which saw highways, border crossings and railways blockaded.
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Residents downstream of the massive oil pipeline leak near Little Buffalo, Alberta have no reason to be concerned about oil moving downstream, say both Alberta Environment and the Alberta Energy Resource Conservation Board (ERCB).
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Over a week after a pipeline leak spewed 28,000 barrels of crude oil onto Little Buffalo First Nation’s traditional land, the First Nation’s chief says he has had no communication from either the federal or provincial government on the mitigation efforts or health concerns in his community.
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