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Suncor admits it doesn't have concrete plans to protect McClelland Lake Wetland Complex

The oil giant received AER's blessing in September to expand its Fort Hills mine into a sensitive peatland. An environmentalist group is now asking the regulator to reconsider.

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Jeremy Appel
Aug 10, 2023
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The Alberta Wilderness Association is fighting Suncor’s efforts to expand its Fort Hills tar sands mine into the McClelland Lake Wetland Complex, pictured above. (Twitter/Nature Alberta)

Oil giant Suncor’s plans for protecting half of the McClelland Lake Wetland Complex (MLWC) in northeastern Alberta from the environmental impacts of a proposed tar sands…

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