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Canada: 75 Alberta Environment Regulators Now on Payroll of Oil Industry
2013-12-24 07:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: More than 75 environment officers who watched over oil industry activities left the provincial environment department this fall, to take higher paying jobs with the new industry-funded Alberta Energy Regulator. Another 75-plus are expected to leave in the spring. In mid-November, the department also began handing over to the regulator thousands of files on oil industry activity pertaining to the Public Lands Act, according to documents obtained by the Journal. This shift in staffing and the...
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