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Environmentalist with B.C. ties fired in Alberta

Tzeporah Berman has been let go from her position on AlbertaÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Oil Sands Advisory Group
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An Alberta cabinet minister is flatly denying that the firing of a controversial environmentalist from a government-appointed committee is due to her support for the NDP in British Columbia.

Tzeporah Berman and four other members of AlbertaÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Oil Sands Advisory Group have been let go from the 18-member panel.

AlbertaÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says the four had provided some valuable expertise but the panelÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s focus is now changing.

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Berman, a former Greenpeace director, supported the New Democrats in B.C.Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s provincial election for their position against the Trans Mountain pipeline project.

The Canadian Press

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