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Environment committee It will be me, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee. It is a pleasure for me to be here with you. I would like to introduce to you Ginny Flood, National Director, Environmental assessments and major projects. I'll go through the presentation. I'll b
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee Cumulative Effects Management Association.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee That's right.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee Yes, to answer your question, we are a participant. There are, I think, 44 members of the association at this point, and they have working groups. There is one working group in particular that is focused on the water work, and it is that group that has given us the water manageme
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee Sorry, did the Cumulative Effects Management Association issue a report on water usage?
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee I have to consult on that question. We're not sure. I can look into that and get back to you.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee I guess we know more than we used to and not as much as we want to. The water management framework actually focuses on the part of the lower Athabasca River where most of the development is right now, but we know that in the future we'll have to expand that knowledge into the gre
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee That's right.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee Yes, that's exactly what CEMA has been set up to do. You may not have been here for my presentation, but our legislative system is set up to look at project-by-project decisions. Although CEAA--the act--does say that we should consider cumulative effects, we didn't really have a
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee Cumulative effects writ large, one of those being water.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee I think that the water management framework is a good illustration of how you can grapple with the question of cumulative effects. Essentially, the question is how much development can an ecosystem sustain? What a model looks at is, if you introduce certain disturbances into an e
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee Right.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
Environment committee It's an addition of each project.
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Ian Matheson