CommonDreams – Canadian Govt Targets Environment NGOs – 17 March 2014

By Paul Weinberg

Mining tar sands oil at Fort McMurray. (Credit: Chris Arsenault/IPS)TORONTO – Job cuts totalling 1,000 at Environment Canada’s climate change division this month means there will be even fewer government scientists onboard to monitor the impact of the extraction, development and transportation of crude oil from the carbon-intensive oil sands in Alberta.

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