Cold Lake First Nation Elder Nancy Scanie declares that instead of laying off thousands of workers and denying entry to the heavily damaged Primrose site to Cold Lake First Nation, companies and governments should work together with First Nations, employing Traditional Ecological Knowledge and their workforce in this time of oil and gas slow down, to perform their due diligence required by law, and clean up. Considering the recent revelations that earthquakes in the Fox Creek area were caused by local fracking processes, the Alberta Energy Regulator’s Approvals for steam assisted gravity drainage, cyclical steam, fracking, and other oil and gas extraction technologies using steam and pressure in the Cold Lake area must be urgently re-examined.

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