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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

‘Trust is gone’: First Nation battles oil company and Alberta over toxic water

An aerial view of Fort Chipewyan.
An aerial view of Fort Chipewyan. Photograph: The Canadian Press/Alamy

Throughout the summer and into the fall, members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation ventured out on to the land as they do every year, hunting and fishing the streams and boreal forest of their community in western Canada.

Over those same months last year, however, toxic water had been leaking from an oil sands operations upriver.

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