On that surface water working group, partly as a result of a lot of the analysis, I'm led to understand that CEMA wrote to the Alberta government in January 2008 calling, effectively, for a moratorium on the further granting of new resource tenures--basically, licences--until January 1, 2011. CEMA was concerned. They wanted to maintain what they called “the conservation opportunity in the areas identified by CEMA as having high conservation value”.
Is it the position of the Department of the Environment or the Government of Canada that these new resource tenures should now be held back on an interim basis until January 1, 2011?