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Related: About this forumPotentially damaging Jackpine oilsands mine expansion OK'd by Ottawa
Shell Canada's Jackpine oilsands mine expansion plan has received the go-ahead from Ottawa, despite the environment minister's view that it's "likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects."
In a statement late Friday, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq concluded that the effects from the 100,000-barrel-per-day expansion are "justified in the circumstances."
The project would be located north of Fort McMurray, Alta. The nearby Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has said the project will violate several federal laws covering fisheries and species at risk, as well as treaty rights.
They said they had received so little information on how Shell plans to live up to conditions imposed on it by a federal-provincial panel that they asked Ottawa for a 90-day delay on the decision originally expected Nov. 6 to work some of those issues through.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/potentially-damaging-jackpine-oilsands-mine-expansion-ok-d-by-ottawa-1.2454849
broiles
(1,361 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I'm not real happy about them taking my name in vain either.
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)all for the reason of corporate profit.
arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)the pleas of mother earth!
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)They will accept this destruction and then one day ask how come nothing was done..
THEY were the tone deaf do nothings, ask nothing. I feel that with FATCA too. Apartheid is coming to Canada.
arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)First Nations more autonomy, a total crock of shit.
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)You mean the bill is a lie and there really be no autonomy?
arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)have seen with this bills readings so far. I've been watching it on CPAC.
[link:http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1323203585807/1323203993179|
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)They are still reading this bill. Has not Parliament closed up now until the end of January.