The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and so too was the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP), the first of seven policies developed by the Alberta government to establish land and water use plans in the province.
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An on-site explosion at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake facility, a subsidiary of Chinese-owned CNOOC Ltd., has shut down operations after one employee was killed and another critically injured.
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Canada is in a turmoil over pipelines and its oilsands bitumen is stranded as route options to the south (Keystone) and west (Trans Mountain) are in limbo. Now, an eastern route is uncertain as mayors in the greater metropolitan area of Montreal block it, mainly over environmental concerns around possible pipeline ruptures.
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British Columbia will not issue a certificate permitting Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion project over concerns about the company’s marine spill cleanup plan, or apparent lack thereof.
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A five-year project twinning traditional knowledge and Western science has found berries growing near the oilsands industrial sites in northern Alberta have, at the very least, lower nutritional value than berries found in more remote locations.
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Surrounded by local elders, Ontario farm boy, hunter-trapper-angler and biologist Phillippe Thomas stands in a party tent in a remote Northern community and turns another muskrat inside out.
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