Natural Resources committee  When I say it's making it harder for us to benefit, I could honestly say that if Canada was benefiting across this country in regard to the oil and gas sector, and if the Province of Alberta was benefiting from it, what we're saying is that sure, economic growth is something that

Natural Resources committee  I think in more ways than one.... To try to answer that question, it's more ways striking and sad to hear the fact that former MP Brian Jean, who represented our area, came out and made those comments after he stepped down as an MP. He should have mentioned that while he was a me

Natural Resources committee  Well, that's what I'm getting at. Some of the benefits that rely on it include economic development, but the other component is that it is those who have IBAs, the impact benefit agreements, are having a hard time because industry continues to lobby government, and government is

Natural Resources committee  What was the question that was asked before? What do you want me to talk about? I missed the first presentation about what it was about.

Natural Resources committee  I could speak on behalf of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, ACFN. Basically, we're in the Athabasca region north of Fort McMurray. Over the years, what we have experienced in regard to oil and gas operations is that we find it hard to truly maximize the benefits from the o

Environment committee  They're saying it's safe to drink. It's safe water to drink and everything like that, but then we have a different issue in that area. Because of all the heavy metals they're not testing for, we feel the testing and results in that area are inadequate. That's why the community wa

Environment committee  We've clearly asked at meetings for them to start testing all these things, but because of the high cost of testing here and there, they refuse to do so. Therefore, they just do the regular thing. They just check the common occurrence of what they consume. Only when there's a p

Environment committee  We get our drinking water from Lake Athabasca. Our intake valve is situated down by Monument Hill. It comes out from the Athabasca River into Lake Athabasca, which in turn goes downstream from there, where it passes through the community of Fort Chipewyan. We get our drinking wat

Environment committee  It relates to the community-based monitoring program. We've been talking about community-based monitoring numerous times at different tables in order to raise this issue. Regardless of the health issues in Fort Chipewyan and the extensive development in the region, it was only ap

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That is what we are assuming at this point in time, that all related health issues in regard to rare diseases that are coming into the community are from the water in the area, because of the massive body of water we live beside. We still go out to the land and harvest from the l

Environment committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman. One of the things we want to talk about, from our point of view, is the health issues in relation to the amount of development in the area, in respect of no regulatory systems being in place at this point. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has num