British Columbia is subsidizing oil and gas well drilling on the same land it has promised to protect for caribou, new research has found.
“The B.C. government has made a lot of commitments to caribou habitat restoration and it’s not really working,” said Adriana DiSilvestro, a University of British Columbia graduate student and lead author on the project, which is published on the website of ARCGis Online, a cloud-based mapping software.
“The fact there are oil and gas operations being subsidized in areas the federal government has deemed critical habitat is a piece to this puzzle.”
The researchers say the study was reviewed
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