Saturday, December 1, 2012

Ottawa Blocks Cenovus Gas Project in Alberta: ‘The Environmental Impacts are Simply Too Great’

Financial Post.
CALGARY — The Canadian government on Friday blocked a seven-year-old plan to drill more than a thousand natural gas wells in an Alberta wildlife reserve...Details here.
  PLT. Please also read our earlier post, "So, What Will it Be, Prairie Grasslands or Pipelines?" And thanks to Nature Canada for organizing the petition. (I signed! Did you?)





Sprague's pipit, one of the many 
"species at risk" found in the reserve.

1 comment:

Greenpeace said...

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada: “It’s a PR tactic but it’s no indication of any change of heart from this government, which has been very vocal in its support of the oil industry.”

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