A decision in a Federal Court hearing that pits Imperial Oil Ltd. against the federal government will come next week, Mr. Justice Douglas Campbell said yesterday. In two days of hearings in Calgary, concluded yesterday, Imperial Oil was fighting to regain a key authorization to continue preliminary work on its $8-billion Kearl oil sands mine. The federal government in February granted the permit but declared it void on March 20. The government did so because of a separate federal court ruling in early March found that the overall approval of Kearl to be partly incomplete. IMO (TSX) rose 77 cents to $59.19.
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