A former senior civil servant with Alberta’s science and monitoring programs called the move 'crazy'
The Syncrude Canada facility in Fort McMurray, Alta., is seen here on Sept. 9, 2018. A new agreement between Ottawa and Edmonton means there will be no money to monitor water downstream from the oilsands.has signed an agreement with the federal government that makes major cuts to environmental monitoring of the oilsands.
Signed on July 7 by top bureaucrats in Ottawa and Edmonton, it cuts funding by at least 25 per cent. The budget has been cut to no more than $44 million this year. It was $58 million last year and $60 million in 2018. Jim Herbers of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute says his funding was cut to $1.4 million from the usual $4 million to $5 million.“The work around monitoring for amphibians, birds and mammals, that work won’t be undertaken. Nor will work on tracking indicators related to plants or changes in habitat.”We’ve got one of the biggest industrial developments — the primary problems of which are contamination of the environment and consumption of water — and there’s no downstream monitoring.
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