You might remember when Canada greenlighted the Frontier Mine oil sands project in Alberta in 2019. Or might remember the protests that have overtaken the project. But did you hear that it is dead? And by that we apparently mean dead dead. Not zombie dead. You may thank the Extinction Rebellion protesters who have been blockading railroad lines across Canada to protest a pipeline.
TeckResources: Frontier Mine—Wikipedia
In 2009, for the first time since the 1980s, what is now known as the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) changed the oil sands mining boundaries inthe Athabasca oil sands in northeastern Alberta, Canada, partly in response to successful exploratory work that Teck and others had launched "north of the known limits"—on the west and east sides of the Athabasca River. When they "discovered a sizable resource", the AER extended the "boundaries" of the "surface mineable oilsands area" to include 14.5 townships.[26] Teck and UTS, who had done the exploratory work together, initiated the regulatory process for Frontier in March 2008.[26]
The Frontier Mine was projected to produce four million tonnes ofCO2 emissions per year.