Transport committee  I think the other point I would make is, the government has been talking to industry on a broad range of transportation, so they have been looking to establish the regulatory requirements within marine and within pipeline. Our engagement in those discussions has enabled us to giv

Transport committee  I believe one of the constituents, the fire chief, was looking to see some more precise data in terms of volumes of product or different products that would be moving through municipalities. I don't think the committee had that knowledge, so it was accepting the fire chief's desi

Transport committee  Perhaps it's not truly in the definition of liability, but Mr. Boag and Mr. Bleaney have talked about us working together with the Railway Association to come up with a national scope emergency response mechanism. That will certainly need to have a funding mechanism associated wi

Transport committee  I'll take a stab at that. We're not the business that establishes those facilities, but I think we would agree that there needs to be a mechanism to assess the risks associated with those facilities. There's also a mechanism with respect to the safety management, the safety cult

Transport committee  There are a couple of points that we would make. There is some work going on to try to understand what would be an appropriate timeline. I think we're looking at something in the one-year to five-year range, probably closer to three or four. We don't have the data fully in place

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. Probably the species that are attracting the most attention from our industry right now are caribou, sage grouse, swift fox, and grizzly. We have been investing in the research through third-party entities to validate the populations, the ranges, how

Environment committee  Yes, institutes like the Biodiversity Monitoring Institute is a stakeholder group we participate in. The Foothills Research Institute is a science-based organization and they are third-party, so we certainly encourage them to make that data available in a broad sense as well so s

Environment committee  Thank you. The industry is certainly supportive of the notion of biodiversity and biodiversity management. We invest in the Alberta biodiversity management institute. We know that the breadth of management strategy around all species is probably a better and more efficient path

Environment committee  Actually I'll take that one, Bob. Thank you for the question. I think the perspective we have on SARA is that it is largely focused on habitat conservation, meaning setting lands aside. Where we find the limitation is in the ability to exercise active management tools. If you

Environment committee  I have maybe a couple of points on that. Gord touched on the fact that there is a chair at the University of Alberta for integrated land management. That's something that industry has been very supportive of over the years. The key objective of that is to look for ways to have c

Environment committee  I have a quick comment. The policy environment in which we operate, particularly in Alberta, requires us to look for alternative sources of water. We look to fresh water first. The saline water isn't always geographically available or chemically appropriate, but the companies hav

Environment committee  Just building on what Murray said, one of the things we said in our presentation is that in order for this to be a comprehensive framework, one of the elements needs to include the monitoring and reporting. As we go ahead with a project's development and as we look at the desired

Environment committee  Thank you. For us, the regulatory environment is very clear with respect to the abandonment and reclamation of wells. In essence, what we have to do is go back into the well when we're finished producing it, seal it off, and remove any surface equipment. At that point we go in a

Natural Resources committee  I would have to say I don't think this group has the technical expertise to respond to that.

Natural Resources committee  We could undertake to get that to this group. As a partial answer to your question, there are typically three things that are expected of the industry from at least the board on the east coast: to have either full prevention and a remote vehicle system, or an acoustic system, o