Ottawa to slash environment review role

 Critics accuse Tories of ‘abdicating’ government’s responsibility to protect environment
 By Andrew Davidson, CBC News April 17 2012
The federal government is reducing the number of departments and agencies that can do environmental reviews from 40 to just three to speed up approvals for projects that will bolster Canada’s economy, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said today.
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