'A bloodbath': Imperial CEO in hearing spotlight as questions mount from MPs Column by ChrisVarcoe
“I just have one question: How do you sleep at night?” said Green party Leader Elizabeth May, in one rhetorical flourish.“As expected, it was a bloodbath,” said Michael Solberg, a partner with New West Public Affairs, who provides government relations and strategic communications advice, and watched the hearing online.That was a key message from the company, one it repeated several times.
The first incident at Kearl was discovered last spring, after Imperial officials found discoloured industrial wastewater — containing arsenic, hydrocarbons and dissolved iron — seeped from the external tailings area at the mine. The Alberta Energy Regulator issued an environmental protection order into the overflow on Feb. 6. It prompted the ACFN to advise its members to not eat any meat or plants harvested downstream from the oilsands site.While the oilsands operator initially notified communities of the discoloured water, it didn’t want to go back to them until “we fully understood the situation and had a finalized plan,” Corson said.It also makes one wonder exactly when that moment would have arrived.
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