Environment committee  I don't believe there is a consequence in the act, although we can confirm that for the committee.

Environment committee  I don't recall from reading the act whether there is a consequence, but we can confirm that to the committee.

Natural Resources committee  For the absolute total across all the operators, I'd have to calculate that for you and come back to you on it. I mean, I think we can go through.... Operators are required to post securities for the absolute limit of $30 million, so each of the operators has posted that. They a

Natural Resources committee  When we're carrying out our audit...right at the moment, Fisheries and Oceans Canada has some $100 million of environmental financial assurances in place. Our question to them is, subsequent to those changes, would those still be kept? Would some be returned? What would be the ca

Natural Resources committee  At the present time, they haven't worked out the details. Until those details are in place, they're not sure what will unfold.

Natural Resources committee  During the work we did for the audit, the ownership issue didn't come up. Their issues, when the limits were originally set, were more about what the costs would be for remediation or for addressing the issue should something occur. So it's more about just cost relative to risk.

Natural Resources committee  For the absolute liability of the $30 million, there are securities in place. There are also security limits for financial security up to $70 million.

Natural Resources committee  It's $70 million.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Anything beyond that is financial capacity of the organization.

Natural Resources committee  As the commissioner has said, a number of the features have been phased out over the last number of years, things like earned depletion or Canadian exploration expenses, Canadian development expenses. Budgets over the last three or four years have set out a phase-out period of an

Environment committee  The tool is still being finalized. I think it is an important one to carry out because it will get each department to consider the reasons for closure of the site on a consistent basis. That then allows for a roll-up where apples are apples. People are looking at it in a consiste

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The responsibility for the 22,000 sites is spread across most government departments with INAC and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans certainly being the largest. They do some individual reporting department by department, but what's missing is the over

Environment committee  Thank you. There's really no consistent closure mechanism to reporting mechanisms across the departments. So trying to get consistency across all departments is important, because it lets you know whether the various departments are assessing the risks in a consistent manner to

Environment committee  There was some increase in staff, but not a doubling of staff dedicated to the monitoring activity.

Environment committee  I think the longest one was about 13 years. About half of them are five years or more. About 15% are over 10 years.