Mutated fish caught in lake downstream of oil sands

[CHIMO]

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. — Information about a mutated fish caught downstream from Alberta's oil sands region will be sent to a joint government-industry group that monitors the health of rivers and lakes.

The 2.5-kilogram goldeye caught last week in Lake Athabasca has two mouths, one beneath the other.

Two boys pointed the deformed fish out to Stuart Macmillan, Parks Canada's manager of resource conservation at Wood Buffalo National Park, who studied it before handing it over to the Mikesew First Nation.

“We had just pulled up to the dock and some kids came over and said, ‘Hey, we've got a fish over here with two mouths,” Mr. Macmillan said Tuesday.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080819.wfish0819/BNStory/National/home

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Sounds like another dinner for Mr. Burns!

[hatrack]

2. Yeah, but I saw an ad in a magazine about how Shell cares about the environment!

They'd NEVER lie about something that important!!!

[CHIMO]

3. Yea Yea

Of course.

Frustrated environmental groups quit Alberta oilsands body

Three environmental groups have walked away in frustration from an advisory body on Alberta's booming oilsands, saying it's not effective and the government is not paying any attention.

The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) was set up by the provincial government in 2000 with members from First Nations groups, industry and environmental representatives. Its mandate was to balance industrial growth with the need to protect the ecosystem in northeast Alberta.

But three of the members — the Pembina Institute, Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and the Fort McMurray Environmental Society — announced on the weekend they had decided to quit the body.

"It's just not appropriate to sit in a room and talk for eight years; meanwhile oilsands development is approved on the landscape," Simon Dyer, a senior policy analyst with the Pembina Institute, told CBC News Tuesday.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/08/19/edm-oilsands-panel.html