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Cold Lake First Nations Goes Solar

Dec 13, 2017

Cold Lake First Nations will install solar energy panels on five of its buildings this fall with funding from Alberta’s Indigenous Solar Program. The project is the result of a new provincial grant program designed to help Indigenous communities reduce their energy...

NHL players visit Cold Lake

Dec 13, 2017

The Indigenous NHL Alumni team was in town Sunday night to take on local hockey players from the Cold Lake Arrows in an exhibition game at the Energy Centre. “We wanted to provide a positive family friendly night,” said Dean Janvier, a Cold Lake First Nations...

Another Imperial Oil Spill

Dec 13, 2017

Alert: Another Imperial Oil spill – Incident occurred on Dec 4th at the N08 pad. Steam and Bitumen has been released through misting, affecting the lease pad and surrounding area. Read More (PDF)  Contact Us Cold Lake First Nations Administration P.O. Box 1769 | Cold...

First Nation concerned about leaks at Imperial Oil’s Cold Lake operations

Dec 9, 2017

The Cold Lake First Nation is voicing concern after 1.2-million litres of heavy oil and produced water leaked from Imperial Oil’s Cold Lake in-situ operations this year in three separate incidents. The most recent Imperial Oil leak in Cold Lake was at a well site last...

‘Very dire situation’: Disappearance of Alberta’s caribou threatens centuries-old way of life

Nov 20, 2017

Brian Grandbois remembers the northern lights flickering across the sky over his childhood home. When he looks up now, he sees the glow of light trapped under an umbrella of steam and smoke, pouring from the oil and gas processing plants that carpet the land northwest...

First Nations boy, 8, cuts long hair after bullying in Cold Lake, Alta. school: mother

Oct 11, 2017

A young First Nations boy from Cold Lake, Alta., cut his long hair Saturday after enduring what his family called years of bullying in school. Mylon McArthur, 8, told his mother Tiya-Marie Large he wanted to cut his hair, which had been long all his life, after...