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

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No brakes on oilsands
+ O' h9 B/ ]  `Stelmach won't suspend land leases for now
' _$ M9 R5 X3 ^# L( c- oRenata D'Aliesio, Calgary Herald, Jason Markusoff, The, Calgary Herald; The Edmonton Journal
Published: 6:38 am

4 w7 R5 x* S- x4 M! e! iEDMONTON - 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.
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3 E' {  C% W% z8 ?3 y6 xStelmach, 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.

0 p( a- ]7 q$ K! T, i$ A* uI'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.