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Banff National Park attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year. A highway is being widened to improve accessibility. How do animals respond to the split in their habitat? Scientist Tony Clevenger is doing research into bear crossings. “Our challenge is to maintain a viable population despite human activity.”
Because of growing oil production in Canada, the Canadian dollar is increasingly seen as a ‘petro currency’. The loonie rises with the oil price, causing the competitive position of Canada’s industrial exports sector to erode. As a result, the Canadian economy has been diagnosed with ‘Dutch disease’.
Canada is home to one of the largest oil reserves in the world, the Alberta oil sands. Extracting oil from the vast resource is tricky, costly and hard on the environment. Still, oil majors are investing billions of dollars in the tar sands, as exploitation “now makes economic sense.”
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