Alberta First Nations appeal suspension of environmental monitoring in oil patch

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Alberta’s Opposition leader called on Monday for the head of the province’s energy regulator to resign over the suspensions

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Companies no longer have to monitor fumes released by burning, or look for and repair leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Surface water need no longer be tested, unless it escapes into the environment. “The long-term consequences of this disregard for the separation between the regulator and the regulated are highly troubling,” says the appeal.

Monitoring is one of the conditions under which companies are granted access to the land, Lepine noted.

 

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