EmerEx Oil & Gas led by David Dover engaged independent engineers to assess the oil reserves on the Poundmaker lands and confirmed about 77 million barrels of heavy oil remained untapped. Poundmaker Band Chief Duane Antoine demanded a $50,000 bribe, and after being refused, stalled the project.
The Emerex discovery well at Poundmaker was production tested in November 2012. Independent engineering records (Amunrud Enterprises) reported 152.05 m³ → ~955 barrels of oil and about the same water.
By the end of the month output stabilized at ~9 m³ (56 bbl) oil per day with equal water cut. Results confirmed an economic well. The well was shut-in after the test period because an Emerex rod broke.
Blaine Favel, CEO of One Earth Oil & Gas was approached by Dover in 2013 to take the project over. Billed as ‘Canadian oil industry’s only aboriginal CEO’ the reality was he was seriously compromised.
Favel, instead of working to develop the oil reserves, threw his lot in with Duane Antoine. Favel peddled the lie that all the oil had been ‘sucked off’ by outside wells — a fabrication contradicted by EmerEx’s 3rd party engineering reports. His One Earth Oil & Gas failed and vanished. Under the Indian Act, the federal government has controlled oil and gas production on First Nations since the 1950s and is obligated to act in their best interests. Blaine Favel, this time billed as a lawyer ‘advising’ the law firm representing the First Nations, said “Crown has failed to apply, on behalf of First Nations, for royalties from the oil drained out of their property by neighbouring wells.” “Basically it’s a negligence issue … They didn’t lift a finger to help,” Favel cried to the press. Favel was never a lawyer, he failed the bar exam 3 times.
That claim became the basis for Duane Antoine’s $3 billion lawsuit against the Federal Government in 2016. That lawsuit seems to have disappeared after rumours Antoine was paid to settle by the IOCG. Its said the lawsuit was settled in 2022 with an undisclosed payout. There is no evidence of anything flowing to Poundmaker members.
Blaine Favel had serious connections. He was a member of Justin Trudeau’s Council of Economic advisors prior to the October 2015 election. He was, at various times, Chief of Poundmaker Cree Nation (1992), Grand Chief of Saskatchewan (1998), and Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan. (2013) According to rumours a sexual harassment claim came against him at U of S and he was quietly removed for cause.
Blaine Favel moved on to being the founder and CEO of Kanata Earth; an ‘indigenous owned’ pot company.
A dive reveals virtually nothing about Kanata Earth (info@kanataearth.com – kickback), and this from an enterprise that raised mountains of money from various sources including government from 2017 onwards. +1(833) 835-7704, 200 Steele St, Cut Knife, SK S0M 0N0.
Once again the puppet master, the man working behind the scenes to steal from natives, was white man Randy Wallace.
