Canada's Asia Oil Ambitions Puts Pristine Nature Reserve at Risk

June 04, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

A Canadian nature preserve risks being destroyed by a proposed oil pipeline to ship the crude onto Asia. It's planned route would cut through a nature reserve towards the Pacific. The government says the Northern Gateway pipeline is vital to tap into China's energy demands, but environmentalists say a fragile wilderness risks being destroyed in the process. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Vancouver, British Columbia.

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