Environment Committee on June 16th, 2009

Evidence of meeting #28 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 40th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was research.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Oil Sands and Canada's Water Resources

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

D. George Dixon Vice-President, University Research and Professor of Biology, University of Waterloo, As an Individual

James Barker Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, As an Individual

10:55 a.m.

Vice-President, University Research and Professor of Biology, University of Waterloo, As an Individual

Dr. D. George Dixon

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 Lake, and it is the lake beside the highway just as you drive into Syncrude.

10:55 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Bezan

Thank you very much.

I just want to remind committee members that tomorrow at lunch, right after caucus, up in room 601 everyone is invited. We have confirmation from Ms. Cynthia Wright and from Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan that they'll be joining us. So I hope to see you all there, and it's a chance to meet in an informal setting.

With that, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

10:55 a.m.

Conservative

Peter Braid Conservative Kitchener—Waterloo, ON

I so move.

10:55 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Bezan

The meeting is adjourned.