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Reclamation illusions in oil sands country

Lack of legislation, financial preparedness, undermine reclamation efforts
Spring/Summer 2008 | tagged with: corporations, environment, mining, reclamation, tarsands
After more than 40 years of scraping away swathes of trees, muskeg, and soil in northeastern Alberta to get at the tarry black gold underneath, Alberta's first oil sands reclamation certificate was finally issued in March to great applause. Roughly 1 km2 of land (104 ha), Syncrude's Gateway Hill, was declared "reclaimed" by the Government of Alberta.

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Sensitive environmental area slated for new highway

New U.S.-Fort McMurray highway proposal bad news for native prairie
Winter 2008 | tagged with: environment, tarsands
This article was reprinted from the Wild Lands Advocate, February 2008.
A proposal to open the Wild Horse border crossing for 24-hour service and expand a north-south transportation corridor along Alberta's eastern border would have dramatic environmental impacts.

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