The president of Alberta’s energy regulator apologized Monday for how the agency handled an oilsands tailings pond leak at an Imperial Oil mine that wasn’t publicly disclosed for nine months.
Laurie Pushor — president and CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator — testified before a parliamentary committee in Ottawa examining the ongoing leak at the Kearl oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray.
Pushor was called to explain why it took nine months to tell First Nations and the federal and provincial governments that wastewater from a tailings pond was seeping into the environment.
“It is clear that neither Imperial nor the AER met community
