Canadians asked to weigh in on new open-pit oilsands mine

Amid all the controversy surrounding the Energy East and TransMountain pipelines, there is another energy project quietly making its way to public hearings.

A proposal to build a new oilsands open-pit mine called the Frontier Mine, the kind of project that once provoked environmental activists to nickname Alberta’s oilsands as “Canada’s Mordor,” is taking comments and heading to a public hearing in the coming months.

Teck Resources, which owns the project, has sunk enough time and money into Frontier.

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