https://thenarwhal.ca/aski-saulteau-first-nation-oil-wells-reclamation/
"When Alycia Aird drives from Moberly Lake, B.C., heading east through the
traditional homelands of the Saulteau and West Moberly Lake First Nations, she
sees remnants of the oil and gas industry everywhere.
“It’s just dotted all over with lease sites and roads and [oil and gas]
features all fragmenting the landscape,” she said. Every hundred metres or so,
Aird spies gas rigs, tree clearings or job sites. Some are still active — many
are not.
Aird’s homelands, about 750 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, is littered with
thousands of old wells that are no longer producing oil or gas. Each well site
has disturbed local ecosystems, and has the potential to contaminate nearby
water sources and emit planet-warming gases.
But for Aird, a member of Saulteau First Nations, each site also presents an
opportunity to rewild her homelands. Aird is the general manager of Aski
Reclamation LP, a First Nations corporation that employs local Indigenous
people to restore the Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations’ homelands.
Since its inception in 2019, the company has earned contracts to reclaim land
degraded by oil and gas, mining and forestry.
“These are people who are going to go back to the land when oil and gas
companies decide to leave,” Aird said. “People here are invested long-term with
the objective of having land that supports them and their cultural
activities.”"
Via
Fix the News:
https://fixthenews.com/create-the-right-conditions/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
