Critics say recent federal cuts to air monitoring are putting the new oil sands environmental monitoring system at risk.
Postmedia reports that the feds are breaking up a team of specialists at Environment Canada who focused on smokestack pollution, and were part of a team that helped design the upcoming oil sands monitoring plan.
Dalhousie University scientist Thomas Duck calls the cuts “vandalism” of the country’s scientific capacity.
He says the government has announced an oil sands monitoring plan and then undermined its own ability to implement it.
Published May 28, 2012
