CBC.  An environmental review panel’s recommendation to impose noise limits on any Mackenzie Valley pipeline facilities built inside a bird sanctuary could scuttle the $16.2-billion project, its backers have told the National Energy Board.  Calgary-based Imperial Oil — the leader of the consortium that wants to build the natural gas pipeline — said it and its partners might not be able to conform to the noise restrictions recommended by the panel for facilities built within the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary.

Hill Times, by JEFF DAVIS, CYNTHIA MÜNSTER.  Canada’s leading environmentalists say they’re losing interest in lobbying federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) because the government has locked itself into an environmental policy "bunker" and is not giving their ideas serious consideration.  (Commentary: We compliment Minister Prentice as being a man of principle, courage and high intellect.  -dh)

Calgary Herald by Shaun Polczer.  In a potential blow to Alberta’s petrochemical sector, the proposed Alaska pipeline could bypass the province depending on the outcome of an open season filed Friday by the main sponsors — Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. and Irving, Texas-based Exxon-Mobil Corp.  (Commentary:Canadian advocates worry that a project might bypass them.  Alaska advocates worry and williwaw that a project might bypass them.  Hopefully, the adults on both sides of the border will carry the day with the attitude that, "we should quit trying to manipulate the private sector and, rather, support its effort to attain the best economic projects."  -dh)