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Globe and Mail: Federal and Alberta regulators have conditionally approved Royal Dutch Shell's multibillion-dollar Jackpine oil-sands mine expansion despite their findings that it would have a number of adverse environmental impacts.
A joint review panel, appointed by the federal Environment Minister and the provincial energy regulator, ruled that the project's effects on wildlife and vegetation will be significant, but that it is nonetheless in the public interest.
Alberta and Ottawa will now make their own......
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Oil-sands expansion conditionally approved despite ‘significant’ effects on wildlife
Posted by Globe and Mail: Jeffrey Jones on July 10th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation