Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  I've had some peripheral interest. On things like SAGD, when you get it out of the ground there are still some water issues, potentially some small amounts of water that need to be dealt with. I started at one point to look at a bit of the toxicity of that, but frankly I found th

Environment committee  It's not two jaws.

Environment committee  I have a PowerPoint deck that was associated with that. To be perfectly honest it's the hour and a half version of what you have here that I'll provide. I'm doing it again as a webinar for Fisheries and Oceans. Perhaps I'll send you the date for that as well.

Environment committee  You could dance around the edge of this for quite a while. I'm of the opinion that considering the scale of the way things are done in the oil sands, I think it's best that they go forward with a full-scale activity and go from there. You've driven by it; it's called Base Mine La

Environment committee  Yes, and I've looked at it. In my “Key Concerns to be Addressed”, number one is: Can the system accept additional loading from industrial activity or do the naturally occurring concentrations represent a maximum that should not be exceeded? So I think that's essentially th

Environment committee  I've not been involved with what I'll call systems design and the working out of schedules associated with different end points as to when this is all supposed to happen.

Environment committee  There's the potential for that. We have 100 out of the 1,000 faculty members at the University of Waterloo. So 10% of our faculty work on the area of water. We already have a number of colleagues who work in the oil sands area. I would suggest the work I do probably will come und

Environment committee  I don't know what the concentration of naphthenic acids is in the particular plume he's talking about. If I were to know that, I could give you an estimate.

Environment committee  If it's about 20, the threshold of impact for naphthanate seems to be around 11 or 12 milligrams per litre. So 20 could probably have a marginal effect if it were released into an area where there were larval fish or something like that. The other comment I should make is that

Environment committee  It sounds like I plagiarized.

Environment committee  That's probably consistent with what I've said in terms of aerial transport and deposition. We have found impacts on larval fish. In the environment we found impacts of PAHs and naphthanates in lab studies. I have not seen the data. Dr. Schindler was presenting preliminary data

Environment committee  Once again, there's no presumption that those airborne materials are coming effectively from the activity within the watershed. There's near-field air contamination and far-field; we simply don't know.

Environment committee  This goes, to a certain extent, to some of the discussions you've already had. In terms of the ongoing research on the leases and remediating the activity, in my opinion, that is the responsibility of the companies. They're the ones who should be doing it, and they should be info

Environment committee  We have done sufficient work that I'm relatively sure that the groundwater inputs into that system are not having a significant effect. But the uncertainty around that is about 20%.