The federal government is providing bottled water to First Nations communities located in close proximity to a toxic water leak from an oil-sands site in northern Alberta, says Minister of Indigenous Services Patty Hajdu.
Hajdu made the announcement at a press conference in Ottawa on March 20, where she and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault addressed the toxic, tailings-contaminated water leakage onto Crown lands from the Kearl Oil Sands Mine owned by Imperial Oil Resources Limited, which is Canada’s largest petroleum refiner.
