A United Nations body has affirmed earlier findings that Canada’s largest national park remains under environmental threats from dams, oilsands development and climate change.
Of 15 objectives for the park, UNESCO says two are improving, five are stable and seven are deteriorating.
The report says a better understanding on the effect the Bennett Dam has had on water flows is needed. No future dams, such as the Amisk project, should go ahead without those studies, it says. It calls on Canada to conduct an independent risk assessment of the threat posed by oilsands tailings ponds “urgently and before the end of 2024.”
“The mission is further very concerned about current proposals to allow for the release of treated into the Athabasca River.”A response from the federal government wasn’t immediately available.
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