There is some silver lining in this article for the ROF though:

Meanwhile, the budget serves as a reminder of the Conservatives’ impatience with environmentalists meddling in Alberta’s oil sands, sending a shot across their bows with a vow to crack down on political activity by organizations with charitable status. And prominent among the budget’s austerity-oriented spending cuts is the axing of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which the government says has outlived its usefulness.

While the latter moves are likely to find the most favour in Alberta, the budget goes to lengths to paint the resource focus as a national project. Objecting to the idea that the regulatory changes are aimed primarily at the West, a federal official offered a list of mining opportunities in Ontario where development could be accelerated – citing $50-billion in chromite reserves in the northern “Ring of Fire” alone.

But with Premier Dalton McGuinty having recently griped about a disproportionate national focus on natural resources at the expense of other opportunities, his government is likely to be disappointed at the budget’s lack of support for other industries that Ontario is trying to develop as it seeks to rebuild its economy.