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Indigenous, environmental and public interest groups are speaking out against the development of an oilsands mine in Alberta’s northeast.

The Teck Frontier oilsands mine is located between Fort McMurray and Fort Chipewyan and is currently awaiting approval from a joint provincial and federal panel. The mine hopes to produce 260,000 barrels per day by pipeline once at full production.

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Eriel Deranger, executive director of Indigenous Climate Action, held a news conference on Friday along with other Indigenous, environmental and public interest groups.

The groups hope the newly minted federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson will put a stop to the project. Deranger plans to send Wilkinson a letter outlining their concerns.

“It will be over 29,000 hectares of land in the heart of Canada’s boreal forest,” she said. “It will produce over six megatons of emissions annually. This project is absolutely moving the line in the wrong direction.”