Environmentalists’ Report Card on Oilsands Mining Companies Gets Mixed Reviews

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in Energy, Issue 15 & 16, Volume 17

              A “report card” by two environmental groups on Alberta’s existing and planned oilsands mining operations is either confusing or misleading, some industry and government representatives say.

              But the Pembina Institute and World Wildlife Fund-Canada, defend the results in the jointly produced the report card, Under-Mining the Environment: The Oil Sands Report Card, (available at www.wwf.ca/oilsandsreport). The environmental groups evaluated the environmental performance of 10 of Alberta’s operating, approved or applied-for oilsands mines. The average score among all oilsands projects surveyed was 33 per cent.

              Given plans to exploit the oilsands on some 140,000 square kilometres, “There is growing concern in Alberta, in…


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