OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT NEEDS TO STOP, SAYS NOTED ENVIRONMENTALIST

Green Party leadership candidate Elizabeth May is in Alberta this week, calling for a moratorium on oil sands development in the province.

May, the former executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, calls rampant oil sands development a global crisis, and the biggest reason Canada isn’t meeting its emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.

“It all adds up to not just a local Alberta environmental problem or pollution problem, it’s a global problem because of the scale of the emissions released,” she says.
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