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Minutes of Proceedings

44th Parliament, 1st Session
Meeting 59
Monday, April 24, 2023, 11:01 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Televised
Presiding
Francis Scarpaleggia, Chair (Liberal)

Library of Parliament
• Alison Clegg, Analyst
• Sarah Yakobowski, Analyst
Dene Nation
• Gerald Antoine, Dene National Chief, Regional Chief, Assembly of First Nations, Northwest Territories
Fort Chipewyan Métis Nation Association
• Carmen Wells, Director, Lands and Regultory Management
Alberta Energy Regulator
• Laurie Pushor, President and Chief Executive Officer
Department of the Environment
• Jean-François Bibeault, Director, Aquatic Contaminants Research Division
• Megan Nichols, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Protection Branch
• Nadine Stiller, Executive Director, Freshwater Management
• Mary Taylor, Director General, Environmental Protection Operations
Government of the Northwest Territories
• Erin Kelly, Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change
• Hon. Shane Thompson, Minister, Environment and Climate Change
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
• Sandy Bowman, Mayor
• Paul Thorkelsson, Chief Administrative Officer
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Monday, March 20, 2023, the committee resumed its study of toxic leak of tailings ponds.

Gerald Antoine and Carmen Wells made statements and answered questions.

At 11:49 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 11:56 a.m., the sitting resumed.

Laurie Pushor, duly sworn in, Shane Thompson, Erin Kelly and Sandy Bowman made statements and, with Megan Nichols and Paul Thorkelsson, answered questions.

Motion

Michael V. McLeod moved, — That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), and following the toxic leak of tailings ponds and Imperial Oil and Alberta Energy Regulator’s failure to provide appropriate answers to this Committee, the lack of action taken and for putting the lives, health, and safety of Indigenous communities at risk. That the committee:

  1. Invite the CEO of Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator for a two-hour meeting in October 2023 and provide this Committee with updates on what steps they took since April 2023 to address the issues resulting from the tailing ponds leak never happens again;
  2. That during these meetings Imperial Oil and Alberta Energy Regulator provide the committee with the documents that support the actions they took; and
  3. That these meetings take place in October 2023, that these meetings be televised, and that the evidence gathered during these meetings be taken into consideration during the study of Freshwater.

Debate arose thereon.

At 1:45 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.



Natalie Jeanneault
Clerk of the committee