{"id":1677,"date":"2008-02-25T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2008-02-25T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:03:00","slug":"oil-companies-call-for-a-new-nep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Oil Companies Call for a New NEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no, but that&#8217;s how Ed Stelmach spins it whenever anyone else makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/features\/albertavotes\/story.html?id=bc12f2d0-b30a-4ce3-ac9b-808082ef2767&amp;k=26825\">this suggestion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">CALGARY &#8211; The Alberta Conservatives will not decide for months on a request from several major oilsands companies to halt development leases in three huge and environmentally sensitive swaths of the oilsands region, Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach said today.<\/p>\n<p>The request threatens to pit Stelmach&#8217;s commitment to environmental protection against his campaign mantra of not &#8220;touching the brake&#8221; on energy development, although he repeatedly dodged that question as the final week of campaigning towards next Monday&#8217;s election began.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Industry giants including Petro-Canada, Imperial Oil, Husky Energy and Suncor Energy support the request for protected conservation areas in a January letter to the Alberta government by the Cumulative Environmental Management Association. The letter asks that the government not sell oilsands leases in the three areas until at least 2011.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no, but that&#8217;s how Ed Stelmach spins it whenever anyone else makes this suggestion: CALGARY &#8211; The Alberta Conservatives will not decide for months on a request from several major oilsands companies to halt development leases in three huge and environmentally sensitive swaths of the oilsands region, Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach said today. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}