An example of environmental data being with held from the public and potentially bias toward industry review.
Globe and Mail: Ottawa kept in dark on abnormal fish found in oil-sands rivers
Pembina Institute: “An essential component of any credible monitoring program is that all the data should be available to the public,”
Hundreds of deformed fish found in rivers running through the Alberta oil sands have been collected and documented by an industry-led monitoring body, The Globe and Mail has learned, but the findings were not shared with the public or key decision makers in government.
That body, the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP), has been criticized in scientific quarters as secretive and is under the scrutiny of three reviews. Former environment minister Jim Prentice ordered one of those reviews after being shown photos this fall of a few malformed fish, and it was delivered Thursday to Environment Canada.
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