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

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No brakes on oilsands
0 w( L9 Z! j% V7 J9 ^) lStelmach won't suspend land leases for now
. b  v1 \: j! z/ A& u+ h0 vRenata D'Aliesio, Calgary Herald, Jason Markusoff, The, Calgary Herald; The Edmonton Journal
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EDMONTON - 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.

; z0 S5 e6 P9 r8 D& x" O+ V/ FStelmach, 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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3 n1 U9 W- x/ ?) O4 v/ f! c4 CI'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.