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Canadian government overhauling environmental rules to aid oil extraction - Democratic Underground

5.6.12

Canadian government overhauling environmental rules to aid oil extraction - Democratic Underground: Source: Washington Post

The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is undertaking a massive rewriting of the nation’s environmental laws in order to speed the extraction and export of oil, minerals and other materials to a global market clamoring for Canada’s natural resources.

“The government is saying, politically, we want to hitch our wagon to an economic development strategy in which natural resource extraction plays a very large part,” said Brian Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute public-policy think tank in Ottawa.


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