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Pipeline companies lobbied to gut Navigable Waters Protection Act

Unionist
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February 21, 2013 - 9:32am

I suppose this also belongs in the Idle No More thread.


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February 21, 2013 - 9:34am
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Pipeline industry pushed environmental changes made in omnibus bill, documents show

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When the Harper government included a radical overhaul of the Navigable Waters Protection Act in the last omnibus bill, outsiders scratched their heads and wondered out loud where that idea had come from.

Documents obtained through the Access to Information Act show it came, in part, from the pipeline industry.

The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association met with senior government officials in the fall of 2011, urging them not just to streamline environmental assessments, but also to bring in “new regulations under [the] Navigable Waters Protection Act,” a CEPA slide presentation shows.

A copy of the Oct. 27 presentation made to then-deputy minister of trade Louis Levesque was obtained by Greenpeace Canada and shared with The Canadian Press.

Just confirming yet again, if there were any lingering doubt, that the oil and gas moguls and their servant, the Harper government, are the enemies of the environment, the Indigenous peoples, and the Canadian people.

 


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February 21, 2013 - 10:10am
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"Just confirming yet again, if there were any lingering doubt, that the oil and gas moguls and their servant, the Harper government, are the enemies of the environment, the Indigenous peoples, and the Canadian people."

Well said. Now, how do we get them out of office?


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