OTTAWA — Environmentalists are raising the alarm over a suite of more than 250 amendments proposed for the Liberal government’s environmental review legislation, warning the industry-inspired changes could alter the bill beyond recognition.
“We haven’t got a sober second thought, we’ve got a complete re-writing,” said Josh Ginsberg, lawyer for Ecojustice. The oil and gas sector began heaping criticism onto Bill C-69 shortly after it was introduced, saying it threatens to stop any major pipeline project from being built. Some argue that passage of the bill would add to constraints that have already hindered the construction of major oil pipelines, including the Trans Mountain expansion project now owned by the federal government. A number of provincial leaders including Alberta Premier Jason Kenney have also blasted the bill.
The heaviest criticisms of the bill have almost exclusively come from the oil and gas sector. Other interest groups representing the mining, hydro power and nuclear generation industries, for example, were broadly supportive of Bill C-69, and proposed only minor amendments. “It’s not like environmentalists loved the new bill,” said Keith Stewart, senior strategist with Greenpeace Canada. “We didn’t get everything we wanted — we got half of what we wanted, industry got half of what they wanted. And now they’re trying to take the whole enchilada.”
The amendments put forward by Independent senators are less ambitious in their scope than Conservative ones, but still propose substantial alterations to the bill in their totality.
ecojustice_ca Mr. Ginsberg: “From 2009 to 2010, Tides USA substantially increased the amounts paid to Canadian groups for the Tar Sands Campaign. From one year to the next, Tides USA tripled its grant to Ecojustice, to US$150,00 from US$50,000.”
Odd I didn't see a single environmentalist quoted in the article Saw some self serving special interest groups and Senators quoted but no actual environmentalist
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