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

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No brakes on oilsands
: f; l4 ?, l+ m' Z) }& ~, S& kStelmach won't suspend land leases for now
. ~( X7 y+ W! M+ K' T9 l8 s  R6 jRenata D'Aliesio, Calgary Herald, Jason Markusoff, The, Calgary Herald; The Edmonton Journal
Published: 6:38 am
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+ _- L( B5 C! @0 w+ M! X. jEDMONTON - 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.

  y& b$ s) v: UStelmach, 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.
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4 u( Y1 g2 u/ \, R" P% O" x/ eI'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.