Potentially damaging Jackpine oilsands mine expansion OK'd by Ottawa

[CHIMO]

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. TAR sands, not oil sands.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Yes, but the poster is just using the article title; anyway,

I'm not real happy about them taking my name in vain either.

[riverbendviewgal]

3. It is so embarrassing for me to know I live in a country that is killing Mother Earth

all for the reason of corporate profit.

[arthritisR_US]

4. Try living in Alberta, the masses are tone deaf to

the pleas of mother earth!

[riverbendviewgal]

5. I am sorry for you.. and all of Canada

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]

6. Take a look at the new bill they are putting through that is supposed to give

First Nations more autonomy, a total crock of shit.

[riverbendviewgal]

7. do you have a link?

You mean the bill is a lie and there really be no autonomy?

[arthritisR_US]

8. Not when it comes to elections from what I

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]

9. This is dated 2011

They are still reading this bill. Has not Parliament closed up now until the end of January.

[arthritisR_US]

10. It gives you the background, 3rd reading was yesterday. nt