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Energy watchdog head Laurie Pushor tells MPs at House of Commons environment committee that information will form part of independent investigation into agency’s response

A contract worker was killed north of Fort McMurray Thursday morning when two large trucks collided at an oilsands mine.

Neither likes the new federal Impact Assessment Act, which Alberta is challenging in court. Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES Jason Kenney’s government argues in the Alberta Court of Appeal that the federal Impact Assessment Act shouldn’t apply to coal mining in the province. Former Green leader Elizabeth May assails the act for differ...