Publication Source: Straight
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Author: Stephen Thomson
The federal government has introduced a “tough-on-nature” budget, Green Party leader Elizabeth May says.
In a phone interview with the Straight today (March 29), May criticized plans to reform the government’s approach to environmental reviews for major projects like oil pipelines.
“[Prime Minister] Stephen Harper is hell-bent on getting oil supertankers on the B.C. coastline, and building pipelines to the Gulf of Mexico, and pipelines to Kitimat, and he doesn’t want anything to slow it down,” May said.