Environment committee  Sure, I would like to. Thank you very much for the opportunity, and it relates back to something Ms. Duncan had mentioned. One of the peer review comments was that we didn't have a design and rationale document. That document and a description of how the program was conducted w

Environment committee  OSEC would be the only one, and I'm not absolutely sure of their membership. Their representation historically has been done with the Pembina Institute, and Pembina has said that they aren't part of that.

Environment committee  Initially they were, yes, but they've pulled out recently.

Environment committee  It was last year, 2008.

Environment committee  Currently the program goes up to the Peace-Athabasca delta, so it's right up on the delta, south of the actual Lake Athabasca.

Environment committee  No, we don't extend into Lake Athabasca itself. We look at the Athabasca River, primarily, but the Clearwater River as well. What was mentioned earlier, though, was that there are a lot of migratory fish species that tend to use the river from the lake, so we have captured or h

Environment committee  I guess it depends on what you define as data. The information collected is presented in tables and charts and summarized in the RAMP technical report. That information is available publicly on the RAMP website, which is RAMP-Alberta.org. It has all the technical reports from 199

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. It is a really good question. The RAMP peer review was carried out in 2003. It was based on a five-year snapshot of RAMP monitoring from 1997 to 2003. The recommendations provided through the peer review panel were considered by RAMP, and I

Environment committee  Thanks, Don. That is a really good question. RAMP does have multi-stakeholder participation. There are currently 12 funding members of RAMP that are oil sands operators. One member is not an oil sands operator but rather a quarry operator that works in the region, and it is some

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. I don't have the information from Dr. Schindler as to what his assumptions were in the information that he's provided. I know that RAMP is a scientifically credible monitoring program. We do have upstream and downstream samples. There is a 1

Environment committee  A number of different monitoring programs are in place. The RAMP information is available to RAMP members and other selected individuals who sign the data-sharing agreement that RAMP has. That information has been provided to Dr. Timoney for review through the Mikisew Cree First

Environment committee  I'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to talk today a little bit about the regional aquatics monitoring program, RAMP. I'm past chair and technical chair of this group. RAMP is really a joint monitoring environmental program that assesses the health of the rivers a