UPDATE:
This company has now withdrawn its application for the mine.
The Pembina Institute
Canada is facing a decision on the biggest oil
sands mine proposal in almost a decade. Alberta’s Frontier oil sands mine,
proposed by Teck Resources, has gone through a lengthy regulatory process
culminating in a recommended approval from a joint federal-provincial review
panel and is now under consideration by the federal cabinet. A casual observer
might assume that given the potent environmental and economic impacts, this
process would have been comprehensive. Yet, the panel's report, which shares the reasoning behind the decision, is remarkably weak on its consideration of climate impacts. More here.