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Gold/Mining/Energy : KERM'S KORNER
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To: Kerm Yerman who wrote (14814)1/14/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: Kerm Yerman   of 15196
 
IN THE NEWS / Greens Worry About Black Gold

The cumulative effects of oilsands development in northern Alberta may be pushing the region's environment past its ability to cope.

That was the thrust of what a regulatory hearing was told yesterday.

Suncor Energy is asking the province's energy and utilities board to approve a $2.2-billion expansion of its oilsands production from 105,000 barrels per day to 210,000 barrels per day by 2002.

The expansion would create 800 more permanent jobs at the plant, which already employs 1,600.

But environment groups told the board that it's not just Suncor that's expanding -- Shell Canada has also proposed building a new bitumen mine; Syncrude Canada wants to increase production; Mobil Oil and Koch Canada also want to open oilsands mines over the next 10 years.

"We have become frustrated," said Dan Smith of the Oilsands Environmental Coalition.

"We have been working on this for five years ... but progress hasn't been made fast enough."

Smith's concerns were echoed by Tom Marr-Laing, executive director of the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based environmental think-tank.

He has said Environment Canada fears the region has already seen excessive levels of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.

"We share those concerns," said Marr-Laing, adding it's wrong for the board to assess the situation on a project-by-project basis.
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