Keepers of the Athabasca, in partnership with the Society of High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee (REAC), is connecting hydrogeologists, some working in the area for over a decade, with Traditional Knowledge holders, First Nations technical experts, and those closest to the land in order to develop tools toward watershed literacy, citizen science, and water monitoring programs.

Ways that Keepers of the Athabasca team participated in the hearings around the Frontier Oil Sands Mine project, by Teck Resources Ltd.

Join Jessica Jalbert, Caity Fisher, Jom Comyn, and Feed Dogs for a fundraiser for the Keepers of the Athabasca in Edmonton, February 7, 2019.

Keepers of the Athabasca are working with hydrogeologists to develop a data visualization tool for community based water monitoring that will show where tailings are seeping into the groundwater and coming back up in the Athabasca River.

Environmental groups say the Government of Canada is failing to meet its legal responsibilities by exempting tailings pond chemicals from a recent screening assessment.

We have many unacknowledged environmental and human health impacts from existing bitumen mines, with currently over a billion cubic metres of toxic tailings. Keepers of the Athabasca is one of the intervenors working hard to stop a proposal for the biggest bitumen mine yet.

The Tawatinaw valley and watershed, with a rich history and cherished by all who live in and around it, is now threatened by two proposed massive gravel and sand pits.

The Joint Review Panel convenes on September 25, 2018 to review Teck's application for a brand new bitumen mine in Alberta. This, the largest and most northerly mine yet, is right next to endangered UNESCO world heritage site, the Wood Buffalo National Park, and the application runs over 4000 pages.

Keepers of the Athabasca is partnering with Sucker Creek First Nation and the Society of High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee to put a solar installation on the Treaty 8 Building in Sucker Creek First Nation

On the anniversary of 1,600 ducks' death in Syncrude's tailings pond, we wish to express our sincere condolences for the thousands of other lives lost in tailing ponds

The Keepers of the Athabasca Annual General Meeting will be held June 1-3, 2018 at Long Lake Outdoor Education Centre

First Nations, residents, businesses, and municipalities want to know: does contamination from the Swan Hills (hazardous waste) Treatment Centre (SHTC) reach us around the Lesser Slave Lake area

Keepers of the Athabasca, in partnership with Sucker Creek First Nation, are inviting proposals from qualified contractors for the provision of a 6.5 Kw solar system to be installed on the roof of the Treaty 8 Building on the Sucker Creek First Nation.

Keepers of the Athabasca (Keepers) have serious liability concerns, including health, financial and environmental, with Alberta's Mine Financial Security Program (MFSP) and the implementation of the Tailings Management Framework (TMF).

Keepers of the Athabasca is now funding to bring interactive and informative workshops across central and northern Alberta.

Keepers of the Athabasca is distressed to hear that yet another large group of birds is dead due to toxic tailings in the bitumen mining region of Northern Alberta.

On Tuesday, July 11 at 6 pm, there will be a public meeting in the tiny hamlet of Faust, on the shores of the Lesser Slave Lake. Once the largest settlement on the lake, idyllic Faust is now home to a toxic site that Big Lakes County suggests making into a public park.