Green agenda missing from China and Russia’s ‘no limits’ partnership

Last week, the federal government approved a US$7-billion takeover by Swiss-based Glencore of the steelmaking coal mines of Teck Resources, in a deal it hailed as a long term measure providing “generational assurance of sound environmental stewardship.”But conservation and financial experts say that conditions of the approval are inadequate to protect the Elk Valley in the Rocky Mountains of Briti