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To: Kerm Yerman who wrote (14870)	1/18/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Kerm Yerman	of 15196

IN THE NEWS / Metis Want Benefits From Proposed Suncor Oilsands project FORT MCMURRAY, Improving the well-being of Metis people should be an approval condition for Suncor Energy's proposed $2.2 billion oilsands expansion, government regulators have been told. The Alberta Energy and Utility Board panel hearing Suncor's application has the jurisdiction to place any conditions it sees fit on the project, said Priscilla Kennedy, lawyer for the Anzac Metis Friday. Suncor wants to double its existing oilsands plant production to 210,000 barrels per day by 2002. Kennedy said the social and economic implications of the expansion will be "massive" on Metis who hunt and trap for a living. On Thursday, trapper Julian Powder told the AEUB animals such as lynx and mink were once plentiful in the area north of Fort McMurray but oilsands projects have changed that. Other complained fish and game in the area are no longer fit to eat. "I can't make a living (trapping) there anymore . . . There's nothing to trap," he said. Anzac Metis president John Malcolm said while Suncor's Project Millennium would create 800 jobs, his people don't have the education requirements to get the positions. Suncor spokesman Mark Shaw said the company understands Metis concerns and wants to enter "a process with Anzac to identify and create a long-term business relationship." Suncor has promised to increase its aboriginal workforce from the 4.5 per cent to 12 per cent by 2002, said Shaw. The board has adjourned the hearings until Jan. 28 to give Environment Canada time to submit reports detailing its concerns about the cumulative effect of oilsands developments on northern Alberta. The federal submission will then be heard in Calgary on Feb. 2.

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