In terms of expansion and new projects coming on stream, we are part of the environmental group that does the assessment. We are also part of the committees that monitor these CO2 emissions and so on.
The thing that strikes me the most about industry in Alberta is that it's still going flat out, saying, let's approve this stuff, when they have the technology to reduce the CO2 from Syncrude and Suncor. Suncor has already gone from about 500,000 tonnes a day to about 120,000 tonnes. Syncrude is still one of the biggest polluters in Canada. Are all of these other projects that have been approved in the expansion going to be any better?
It's committees like this one that have to lay down the rules and say that if the technology exists, then use it. The technology has to be implemented when you say, you get the permit, go ahead and build. It has to be there. It's not there now. I don't see it. But my people have to live there after everybody else is gone.
They're talking about reclamation, but I don't see any money there, identified specifically to reclaim all that land. They talk about $90 million or some other figure that they will all put into a pool. When you look at projects like Uranium City, that's a federal responsibility. When there's a big outcry in the media, you'll see action come from the federal government. They put $2 billion into a cleanup. It hasn't even touched Eldorado. You have radioactive material blowing into Lake Athabasca, and this and that.
You're saying industry should be doing this, but what about the person who gives them the permit to do it? Eldorado and all those uranium mines were federal initiatives, because they needed the uranium. When they pulled out, they left homes and everything. Everybody was given $9,000: goodbye, and put the lights out.
Is it going to be any better at Fort McMurray? We have no certainty there. My people are saying they still have to live there, but is the land going to be sustainable 500 years from now? Look at the pollution that's there already from 60 years of mining the tar sands. After 60 years I can eat fish only once a week. Right now the moose are being tested for arsenic. They are showing 453 times the acceptable level of arsenic. My people at Fort Chip have freezers filled with their yearly supply, and a lot of them are not even eating that.
We need answers. We need responses from the federal government to do the study. A lot of times my elders say that we have treaty rights that need to be protected. Well, you have to protect my health. That's a guarantee.