[Ost-news] Time to draw a line in the tar sands

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Time to draw a line in the oil sands

May 01, 2008 04:30 AM  
Gillian McEachern  
Matt Price 

Ontario is on the cusp of helping oil-sands emissions explode. Shell Canada wants permits to be granted by the end of this year for a new refinery in Sarnia to process oil from its oil-sands mines in Alberta for use in gas tanks across the GTA.

The company will be submitting its environmental assessment in June, but the governments of Canada and Ontario are already being pressed to make crucial decisions about the refinery.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/time-draw-a-line-tar-sands

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