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Canada minister defends oil sands despite pursuing emissions cuts

Trudeau administration intends to ‘extract value’ from controversial projects

Canada’s new natural resources minister has defended the country’s promotion of exports from its controversial oil sands projects even as he vowed to enforce “aggressive” greenhouse gas emissions cuts on the energy sector.

Jonathan Wilkinson, appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in October, said Ottawa was “going to be very aggressive in reducing emissions from the sector” and would work with other countries to drive down long-term crude demand.

But he insisted Canada still had the right to keep pursuing exports from one of the world’s most carbon-intensive sources of oil.

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