Critics doubt oilsands monitoring will lessen impact on environment – Winnipeg Free Press

Critics doubt oilsands monitoring will lessen impact on environment

By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
Posted: 10/2/2011

EDMONTON – Don’t get him wrong.

Simon Dyer of The Pembina Institute, a longtime critic of Alberta’s oilsands environmental management, is pleased as punch that Ottawa and Edmonton are finally working together to come up with a scientifically defensible plan to track the impact of mega-developments.

He’s just not sure it’ll make any difference.

“It’s good that the government is talking about environmental limits,” he says. “Unfortunately, they’ve been talking about this (for) a decade and it’s still all rhetoric.”

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