Natural Resources committee  I do not.

Natural Resources committee  My understanding of a relief well is that it needs to intersect the well bore of an uncontrolled well, so that well bore would need to be in place before you get the relief well down there.

Natural Resources committee  Sorry, can you say that again?

Natural Resources committee  Correct.

Natural Resources committee  No, I think virtually every company has a relief well strategy for all of their offshore plans. It's not the only strategy, I guess I would stress. They are looking at all the other ways to kill a well, should it occur. But all of them in their contingency plans, I would expect,

Natural Resources committee  Sorry, I can't tell you. They don't share what their operations are outside of Canada. It's not something that comes into the Canadian association.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I guess what we're saying is that when these events occur, it's important to understand what happened and to learn from them. This industry has been active for many decades. I think we've grown a great deal of expertise, but I don't think it would be wise for us to a

Natural Resources committee  The Canadian industry isn't active in the north, and therefore it does not have its own equipment in the north. I can't speak for the American industry. I would expect, though, that they would have requirements to have their own response capability for their own waters.

Natural Resources committee  Let me clarify: the Canadian industry does not have equipment in the north. I can't speak to what the Canadian government would have. I would expect that the coast guard and perhaps Transport Canada may have some assets. I don't know that.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. As a Canadian association we're able to provide broad industry views on policy and regulation, as well as information on the state of the industry. We're not able to talk, obviously, about the circumstances of the Gulf of Me

Agriculture committee  There are probably a number of points there. I'm familiar with some of the concerns that folks have raised in the agricultural community. Part of the challenge is understanding and confidence and trust around what goes on and what the regulations are. From our perspective--I thin

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Obviously there is a lot of interest in Alberta and British Columbia in particular around what's going to happen with the development of this resource. Alberta Environment has spent an awful lot of time and money in scientific effort to understand whether or not ther

Agriculture committee  Certainty is key to informing investment decisions. Any uncertainty that exists out there creates a big challenge for the industry. We're starting to see things gel, with respect to where the regulatory environment and the policy environment are going. We're encouraged by that. C

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable members, I want to thank you for the invitation to meet with you on the subject of competitiveness of the sector. First, just a bit about my organization. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is a trade organization. We have 130 producer-membe

Environment committee  That's a comment we've heard in the past, and quite honestly, we would prefer not to be the funders of a regulatory process. Nevertheless, it is the case, and the funding is funnelled indirectly through licence fees and other levy kinds of processes. So it's not directly funded b