{"id":5132,"date":"2018-09-25T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:34","slug":"this-morning-the-teck-frontier-tar-sands-mine-hearing-began-in-fort-mcmurray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/5132\/this-morning-the-teck-frontier-tar-sands-mine-hearing-began-in-fort-mcmurray\/","title":{"rendered":"This morning the Teck Frontier tar sands mine hearing began in Fort McMurray."},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning the Teck Frontier tar sands mine hearing began in Fort McMurray.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Teck Frontier mine, if approved and built, would be one of the largest tar sands mines in history. The picture below<\/strong> is where its being proposed to be constructed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Proposed site of Teck\u2019s Frontier Mine 30 kilometres south of Wood Buffalo National Park. If built, it would be one of the largest mines ever constructed in Alberta\u2019s oilsands.<\/p><\/div>\n

The project is being proposed just<\/span> 30 kilometers south of Wood Buffalo National Park<\/span><\/a>, a <\/span>current<\/b> UNESCO World Heritage site<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0I say current for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, UNESCO<\/span> issued a warning<\/span><\/a> about the environmental health of Canada\u2019s largest national park. <\/span>The Wood Buffalo National Park is already at risk of losing its UNESCO status because of ecological deterioration across <\/span>15 of 17 indicators<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, one of the world\u2019s largest groups of conservation scientists, echoed those concerns saying<\/span> Canada\u2019s biggest national park is among the most threatened World Heritage Sites<\/span><\/a> in North America.<\/span><\/p>\n

These warnings come before the addition of a massive new tar sands mine that would levelan area twice the size of Vancouver, <\/span>create more emissions than more than a million cars<\/span><\/a>, create a new toxic tailings lake and have a massive impact on the already troubled ecological area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hearing itself may be mostly a show. The Alberta government and its energy regulator have approved almost 100% of tar sands project proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of the impacts or the opposition to the project the rubber stamp always seems to come out.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is one of the reasons why we fight so hard to stop pipelines. When we stop pipelines we stop projects like this from moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teck currently doesn\u2019t have a way to get its toxic product to market.<\/span><\/p>\n

By keeping pipelines from getting built we protect areas like Wood Buffalo National Park because the Alberta and Canadian government don\u2019t seem willing to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting in this room, listening to Teck try to greenwash its record you can see rubber stamp getting ready to come out. It\u2019s heartbreaking to watch given the <\/span>long list of impacts<\/span><\/a> this project would have. <\/span><\/p>\n

We may not get justice in this hearing, but I have faith in all the pipeline campaigns from <\/span>Coast Salish territories (Vancouver) against Kinder Morgan<\/span><\/a>, to those <\/span>standing up to Line 3<\/span><\/a> in Minnesota, to the historic Cowboy and Indian Alliance putting up <\/span>solar in the path of Keystone XL<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

To all those protectors everywhere \u2013 thank you. You are doing what our governments will not. And as our government looks to approve a massive new tar sands project in a time of climate crisis, your actions are more needed than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

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