Oil ambitions could jeopardise Canada's nature reserve

2012-08-23 7

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 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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