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Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power | The country touts plans for what could be North America’s largest-ever clean energy investment, while doubling down on oil. (insideclimatenews.org)

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

environmental regulations

LOL. Good one. Those toxic "ponds" at Fort Mac are lakes of VOCs. We ruin water and burn gas on every barrel of oil extracted,

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[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Fort Mac is surrounded for 500km in every direction by trees, and the fact that tailings ponds exist instead of the tailings simply being dumped directly into the Athabasca is as a direct result of the functioning of environmental regs. Ya dildo

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