No Brakes on Oilsands: Stelmach won't suspend land leases for now...

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No brakes on oilsands
Stelmach won't suspend land leases for now
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  j! f- F! W1 f* P1 b1 gPublished: 6:38 am

* k& u) r: p5 F5 k1 u( C- V, U4 cEDMONTON - Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach signalled Monday he'll ignore a call from some of Canada's largest energy companies to control expansion in the oilsands to protect fragile lands. He also brushed aside a plea from the province's aboriginal chiefs to halt approval of new projects.
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- i2 B4 h# U5 d8 Z4 P! V$ J/ R$ YStelmach, who famously said he doesn't believe in "touching the brake" on development, dismissed as preliminary a call for an immediate suspension of government land-lease sales in three massive environmentally sensitive swaths of northern Alberta.

* @- S! m* s* M# z% {I'm in shock, even the energy giants are telling our government to put the brakes on oilsands development and Stelmach still refuses to do anything about it. Is he completely deaf/dumb/blind? I think the majority of Albertans realize that something needs to be done, whatever that something may be. I don't understand how Stelmach feels it is O.K. to be so careless.