Natural Resources committee  I think that's a better question to ask the private sector. The fundamental policy that drives our mandate that has been in place for decades is that it's a market-driven process, and the markets respond according to.... In our case, the commodities are geopolitical global commod

Natural Resources committee  Environment Canada is largely leading the Government of Canada's policy for GHG emissions and climate change, so we take a broader policy direction from the Government of Canada. To date, it really has not yet affected that pace of development and rights issuance yet, but those

Natural Resources committee  I can't say that Environment Canada has ignored it. We approach Environment Canada every year and mostly what we get from them is input on sensitive areas, conservation areas, areas that might be withdrawn in the future. We try to create that certainty for industry that we don't

Natural Resources committee  The Geological Survey of Canada has the geomapping program, but separate from that, as oil and gas managers we have our own web-based tool, which Michel spoke to and which we use for consultations. So there are two different initiatives. Ours is really to support our program and

Natural Resources committee  Yes, exactly. The raw data is from other departments, such as Fisheries, Environment, the Geological Survey.

Natural Resources committee  That's right. We have just made a compilation.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I guess what I'm saying is on top of regulation, there are broader policies, and yes, we have to engage as resource managers in the policies that we create. We have to engage with the territorial government, because they do have a water strategy.

Natural Resources committee  We're in the non-renewable resource industry, and largely what drives that is obviously commodity prices and the interest globally for those commodities, so I can't comment in particular. I haven't done the analysis in Yukon, but the surge they've seen lately is because of the ha

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The all-weather roads in the Northwest Territories, specifically, don't reach right up to the central Mackenzie Valley, right up to the Norman Wells oil field, for instance. In Norman Wells there's a winter road, but not yet an all-season road.

Natural Resources committee  You know, I can't answer the first question. It's not within our purview. I would suggest, though, that there's always an interest in P3 development. So if the exploration that's currently taking place in shale reveals a major development potential, I would imagine that the indus

Natural Resources committee  The federal government is involved in the initial phases of developing roads, but then the territories or the provinces take on the role of operating and maintenance.

Natural Resources committee  In this case it may be so.

Natural Resources committee  There are many facets to that. We expect the industry, long before there are activities, to engage at the community level, to tell them about their plans and what's involved. So there are many aspects of that conversation. And as I mentioned earlier, the population is small, but

Natural Resources committee  It's not one size fits all; there's certainly a great deal of variability across the north, just as there would be in Canada. As I mentioned earlier, for instance, the Inuvialuit are one of the earliest aboriginal groups in Canada to agree to a land claim agreement, so they're ve

Natural Resources committee  There is a sense that there is oil and gas potential in what we call the “wedge” in terms of the maritime dispute on the boundary. We do have Canadian leased licences in that area, but there has been imposed work prohibition on those licences for a couple of decades now. We won't