From September 16th to September 22nd solar panels will be installed on the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Elder and Youth Lodge with an official ribbon cutting ceremony to take place on September 19th.

This year marked the fifth and final annual Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The people of the Athabasca joined together for this important gathering, turning attention not only to tell the story and stop the destruction in the Athabasca region, but to shed light on other communities, other places that have been sacred since time immemorial: the healing has to start everywhere.

Keepers of the Water, KoW Beaver River Council, and Keepers of the Athabasca have released a Resolution opposing government, military and police aggression against the Unist'ot'en Camp and the traditional Gitxsan Wet'suwet'en people who are asserting and protecting natural law on their birthright.

This year marks the fifth and final annual Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Join the people of the Athabasca for this important gathering, as we turn our attention not only to tell the story and stop the destruction in the Athabasca region, but to shed light on other communities, other places that have been sacred since time immemorial: the healing has to start everywhere.

First Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are concerned that the Alberta Government and Sherritt International continue to downplay the effects of the release of 670-million litres of coal mine wastes into the Athabasca River watershed and that the federal government has remained silent on the spill.

Keepers of the Water and Keepers of the Athabasca have released a statement regarding the anticipated long-term damage to the Athabasca River from the breaching of a containment pond at the Obed Mountain coal mine.Keepers of the Water and Keepers of the Athabasca have released a statement regarding the anticipated long-term damage to the Athabasca River from the breaching of a containment pond at the Obed Mountain coal mine.

Keepers of the Athabasca would like to thank all companies for participating in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA). Unfortunately, neither Forest Stewardship Council certifications nor the CBFA are benefiting Alberta caribou.

The CNRL spill is of great concern to the Keepers, finding it unacceptable that the leaderships of the neighbouring First Nations have not been given access to do their own assessments.

2013 Healing Walk held in Fort McMurray on July 5-6.

A report just released by Keepers of the Athabasca indicates that many Canadian groups do not support oil sands development. In all, the Keepers found 35 groups had indicated opposition to new tar sands development since 2006. In 2011 former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed also indicated opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, saying the bitumen should be refined in Alberta.

Alberta conservation groups have sent information on the decline of woodland caribou in Alberta to the people organizing the February 17 Washington Rally to stop Keystone XL. This information was added to the organizers list of reasons for President Obama to turn down this pipeline.

Keepers of the Athabasca has released a report by Helene Walsh, titled Alberta's Oil Sands Development is Not Responsible - Moratorium Needed.

Two major oil spills have occurred recently in Alberta: one near Red Deer and the other near Rainbow Lake. Both raise serious issues about pipeline safety and harm to the environment, human health and traditional ways of life.

Meagan Wohlberg of the Northern Journal reports on a pilot project between Mike Mercredi and the Keepers of the Athabasca that could see Fort Chipewyan become the first northern Aboriginal community to make the switch to renewable energies.

Keepers of the Athabasca has signed the historic "Save the Fraser Declaration" opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.

In this letter to Alberta Environment and Water, Carl Hunt of the Athabasca Bioregional Society (Hinton) details a number of critical concerns over the development of Coalspur Mines's Vista Coal Mine project, particularly to do with hydrology and aquatic ecology, and calls for an independent expert review of the Mine Plan.

As Keepers of the Water, we believe our present Conservative Government in Ottawa is putting oil industry profits ahead of the social, economic and environmental well-being of Canadians. It is being done in such a way as to erode our democratic rights in the process.

This powerful documentary by EP Films has incredible photography by a group of the world's top wildlife photographers. It brings the true picture of the coast this oil would be traveling through to get to open ocean, and the danger level involved. It highlights the nature we all want to protect, but our blinkered and incessant addiction to burn more oil, is helping to destroy.