{"id":51236,"date":"2020-02-19T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51236"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T00:30:54","slug":"what-the-teck-mine-will-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51236","title":{"rendered":"What the Teck Mine Will Destroy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What the Teck Mine Will Destroy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Old growth, wetlands, wildlife. All the review panel added up and wrote off.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Directly over the proposed Teck Resources Frontier mining pit. Photo by Garth Lenz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Any day now, the Trudeau government is expected to render its verdict on the $20-billion Teck Resources Frontier mine proposed to push Alberta\u2019s industrialized oilsands landscape farther north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s been a lot of published debate<\/a> about whether the economics of the big dig make any sense. Less covered has been the environmental toll the project will exact should it proceed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last July, the Joint Review Panel assessing the impacts of the project released<\/a> a 1,335-page report after holding public hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite finding \u201csignificant adverse effects,\u201d the panel declared that the mammoth project was in the public interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added that the mine \u201cwould maximize the value of a product which is essential to everyday life\u201d and provide income for Indigenous peoples of Alberta and Canada. Assuming, that is, oil prices reach $95 a barrel.The Tyee is supported by readers like you Join us and grow independent media in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil prices currently now sit at $50 a barrel, so that public interest to be traded against natural destruction is far from materializing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, here\u2019s what the panel said the mine will destroy or imperil: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will destroy 292 square kilometres of the boreal forest, most of which is prime waterfowl habitat. For reference, that\u2019s nearly three times the size of the city of Vancouver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report adds, \u201cThe project is likely to result in a significant adverse effect to biodiversity, primarily as a result of the loss of wetlands and old-growth forests.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be a high to moderate loss of habitat for migratory birds whose populations are already dwindling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What the Teck Mine Will Destroy Old growth, wetlands, wildlife. All the review panel added up and wrote off. Any day now, the Trudeau government is expected to render its verdict on the $20-billion Teck Resources Frontier mine proposed to push Alberta\u2019s industrialized oilsands landscape farther north. There\u2019s been a lot of published debate about whether the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5549,29062,23884],"class_list":["post-51236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-teck-mine","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51237,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236\/revisions\/51237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}