By Tracy Johnson, CBC News, September 8, 2016
Prospect of another big oilsands mine in Alberta raises issues of growth and cap on emissions
Amid all the controversy surrounding the Energy East and TransMountain pipelines, there is another energy project quietly making its way to public hearings.
A proposal to build a new oilsands open-pit mine called the Frontier Mine, the kind of project that once provoked environmental activists to nickname Alberta’s oilsands as “Canada’s Mordor,” is taking comments and heading to a public hearing in the coming months.
