SEM-10-002
The Council voted not to instruct the Secretariat to prepare a factual record.
Status: Closed
The submission SEM-10-002 (Alberta Tailings Ponds), alleges that tailings ponds resulting from the extraction of bitumen from mined oil sands deposits in northern Alberta, "contain a large variety of substances that are deleterious to fish," and that "these substances migrate to groundwaters and the surrounding soil and surface waters." The Submitters further allege that their own report shows tailings ponds currently leak four billion liters (1 billion gallons) each year. The Submitters assert, among other things, that Canada is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law through "abdication of its responsibility to monitor, investigate and enforce subsection 36(3) of the [Fisheries Act]" which prohibits such alleged leakage, and the "indirect deposition of deleterious substances" in "any place under any conditions where the deleterious substance may enter into such waters."
Canada notified the Secretariat of the existence of a “pending judicial proceeding” that, according to Canada, required the Secretariat to proceed no further with the Submission.
Canadian Federal Fisheries Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-14, s. 36(3),(4),(5)
Environmental Defence Canada, Natural Resources Defense Council, John Rigney, Environmental Defence Canada, Natural Resources Defense Council, John Rigney, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Don Deranger, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Daniel T'seleie, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Represented by: Environmental Defence Canada
Submission - Submission authored by Submitter(s) on 14/04/2010
Annex - Other document authored by Submitter(s) on 31/12/2008
Annex - Other document authored by Canada on 19/01/2009
Annex - Other document authored by Canada on 20/03/2009
Annex - Other document authored by Submitter(s) on 25/03/2010
Other Documents - Other document authored by Submitter(s) on 20/04/2010
Acknowledgement - Communication to Submitter(s) authored by Secretariat on 13/04/2010
Determination - Secretariat Determination under Article 14 (1) authored by Secretariat on 03/09/2010
Submission - Submission authored by Submitter(s) on 28/09/2010
Acknowledgement - Communication to Submitter(s) authored by Secretariat on 05/10/2010
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 12/05/2004
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/12/2008
Other Documents - Other document authored by Submitter(s) on 01/12/2008
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 05/02/2004
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/11/2007
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/02/2009
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 15/03/2008
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/08/2005
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/06/2009
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/10/2010
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 01/11/2005
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 21/09/2009
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 02/07/2010
Other Documents - Other document authored by Canada on 26/05/1994
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 20/03/2009
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 13/02/2004
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 27/01/2004
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 19/01/2009
Other Documents - Other document authored by Submitter(s) on 26/01/2009
Other Documents - Other document authored by Individual or entity named in Submission on 28/03/2008
Determination - Secretariat Determination under Article 14 (1) and 14 (2) authored by Secretariat on 11/12/2013
Party Response - Response from the Party under Article 14 (3) authored by Canada on 31/01/2014
Acknowledgement - Other document authored by Secretariat on 03/02/2014
Other Documents - Communication to Submitter(s) authored by Secretariat on 03/02/2014
Notification - Other document authored by Secretariat on 14/04/2014
Other Documents - Other document authored by Canada on 14/05/2014
Notification - Secretariat Notification to Council under Article 15(1) authored by Secretariat on 29/07/2014
Resolution - Council decision concerning the development of a Factual Record authored by Council on 27/01/2015
Other Documents - Council decision concerning the development of a Factual Record authored by Council on 27/01/2015
