EDMONTON - A long-awaited new plan from the federal and Alberta governments on how to gauge the environmental effects of the oilsands will watch for more contaminants, in more places, more often.
But monitoring will be run — at least at first — by bureaucrats instead of an independent agency.
Scientists who studied the old system had proposed an arm's-length commission that would report directly to the environment minister.
Increased monitoring is to begin as early as the spring.
"We will begin to work immediately," federal Environment Minister Peter Kent said Friday after a technical briefing in Edmonton. "It is critical that we get the development of the oilsands right."
Huffington Post
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