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Canada banning oil, gas and mining from marine protected areas
OTTAWA — The oil and gas industry has worn out its welcome in Canadian marine conservation areas.
Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson today is announcing a total ban on oil and gas work, as well as mining, waste-dumping and bottom-trawling, in all of Canada’s marine protected areas.
Wilkinson is at an international nature summit in Montreal where Canada is pushing other countries to do more to protect the global environment.