Imperial Oil Sands Project Denied Water Permit. By David Ebner, Toronto Globe and Mail, March 31, 2008. "The [Canadian] government has revoked a key water permit for Imperial Oil's proposed $8-billion Kearl oil sands mine, delaying work... Imperial, which is majority-owned by Exxon Mobil, has been granted an expedited court hearing, scheduled for early May, on its application to overturn the decision... The loss of the water permit stems from a Federal Court of Canada judgment in early March that found approval of the Kearl project by the Alberta and federal governments didn't fully explain why [CO2] emissions were not significant. However, that ruling didn't throw out the overall approval. Still, citing the court judgment, the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans told Imperial in a March 20 letter that the water permit issued Feb. 8 had been rendered invalid... '[The water permit] is legally valid and that's the argument we will pursue in court,' [said Imperial's spokesman Gordon Wong]."
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