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Suncor's base plant with upgraders in the oil sands in Fort McMurray Alta, on Monday June 13, 2017. After nearly a decade since the last major oil pipeline was built, and with existing ones brimming with crude, Canada's energy industry is wondering when and if any new lifelines to foreign markets will go into the ground.
Diesel leaches into tidal pools after a spill in the Great Bear Rainforest last month. Canada Transportation Minister Marc Garneau made headlines this weekend when he announced that by the end of the year, a long-promised ban on oil tanker traffic will be put in place off the North Coast of British Columbia-weeks after the government was harshly criticized for its bungled response to a spill in that same region.