Sentences with phrase «oil sands expansion»

With so much benefit concentrated in one province, one can hardly call fast - tracking oil sands expansion a nation - building project.

While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace of oil sands expansions.

The Conservative majority suggests a business - as - usual trajectory for Canada's climate change ambitions: rapid oil sands expansions, soaring greenhouse gas emissions, reductions targets on paper, if nowhere else.

I'm actually against oil sands expansion and would far rather see all governments support renewables instead, but when the State Department takes such a moronic attitude on a serious issue it just looks like obfuscation.

There a federal - provincial joint review panel (JRP) found that the proposed oil sands mine expansion would have significant residual impacts on the ecosystem and recommended a series of conservation offsets to address a wide range of impacts, including those to caribou.

But his suggestion that more pipeline capacity would not influence oil sands expansion and its attendant environmental impacts was disingenuous.

Even though Canada would still miss its 2020 target, at least emissions would be falling over the coming years if oil sands expansion stopped.

She also noted that Oliver failed to mention that even his government's own reports from Environment Canada have said that Canada will not meet its climate - pollution targets because of oil sands expansion.

The NEB also stated that topics such as climate change and oil sands expansion should not be covered during the hearings.»