Rumoured changes to the way the federal government makes decisions about offshore oil and gas projects have fishermen and environmentalists crying foul on Canada’s East Coast.
The changes would give offshore petroleum boards in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador a major hand in future environmental assessments, a move that Gretchen Fitzgerald of Sierra Club Canada calls a “betrayal.”
“This is more than what the oil companies would have got under Stephen Harper,” Fitzgerald, director of Sierra Club Canada’s Atlantic region chapter, told DeSmog Canada.