irst Nation Doesn’t Believe
abamun Lake will Recover

icole Burton, News Editor

First Nation in Alberta is rejecting claims that the lake on its shoreline can make a full recovery
om a train derailment that dumped 1.3 million litres of bunker fuel oil and wood preservatives.

Barry Hochstein, a land use expert hired by the Paul First Nation, said that despite the results of
new report from CN Rail on the August 2005 spill, the lake is still a long way from clean.

An aerial view of Lake Wabamun taken in August 2005 shows that tar balls have ashed up on
e shore in October, just before freeze-up, according to Hochstein.

“I could not stand up here in front of you and say the lake is clean when I’ve walked the lake
yself for days on end through the tar balls, seen the sheen, seen the birds and the fish that are in
e water—dead ones.”

Hochstein says the band, which has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against CN, the federal

jovernment and the province for damages to the reserve, is demanding more cleanup crews when
e lake thaws again in the spring.

The CN-commissioned report by environmental assessment firm Golder Associates found no
roblems for algae, plankton, shoreline reeds, and most invertebrates in Lake Wabamun.

The report also notes that the sediments containing oil that affected the fish eggs and an aquatic
rorm species will also “undergo increased weathering over time with toxicity progressively dimin-
hing to negligible levels.”

Representatives of Wabamun Lake residents outside of the Paul Nation said earlier last week
at they will hire their own expert to review CN’s report.

 

 

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