Showdown looms as Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline gets green light
APTN National News CALGARY–The National Energy Board’s joint review panel gave the green light Thursday…
Alberta
Faced with injunction, Lubicon ponder next move
Lubicon Lake Nation members involved in a blockade against energy firm Penn West are still mulling what to do in response to an injunction ordering them to take down their anti-fracking camp.
Neil Young’s ‘Honour the Treaties’ tour born in greened-up ’59 Lincoln on road to Fort McMurray
It was the last Friday in August and the radio was off in the 1959 Lincoln on the highway from Edmonton to Fort McMurray, Alta., when Neil Young first heard about the daunting legal costs facing the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in their battle against the tar sands.
Massive spill from Alberta coal mine moves north
A massive spill from an Alberta coal mine is moving north up a major river.
Lubicon Lake files lawsuit against oil and gas company
The Cree people at Lubicon Lake in northern Alberta have had enough.
They have filed a lawsuit against oil and gas giant Penn West Petroleum.
Inquiry needed in deaths of Indigenous children in welfare system
The liberal leader of Alberta is calling on the prime minister to launch an inquiry into the deaths of Aboriginal children in the child welfare system.
Treaty nations deliver message to Alberta
Nothing about us without us.
That was the message at a rally held in Edmonton yesterday.
Alberta government orders coal mine to clean toxic spill
APTN National News An update now on a story we brought to you on Tuesday….
Locals link gang to elder's beating
Violence against elders is a growing problem in Indigenous communities.