Evidence of meeting #4 for Natural Resources in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was issues.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Ian Campbell  Senior Project Director, Sustainable Development, Policy Research Initiative, Privy Council Office
David Brooks  Director of Research, Friends of the Earth Canada
Ralph Pentland  As an Individual
Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Chad Mariage

12:55 p.m.

The Clerk of the Committee Mr. Chad Mariage

The reason for the postponement of the trip to Calgary and Fort McMurray is that there was a temporary shutdown at Syncrude because of retrofitting. I don't know if you saw the reports on CBC last week or the week before. There was an odour being emitted, or something along those lines, and so they're making improvements, doing some maintenance, and those sorts of thing. At Suncor there's a senior management conference that week, which can't be rescheduled, so there wouldn't be anybody there to receive us and show us around.

A recommendation was made, though, by a spokesperson of both Syncrude and Suncor that the fall would probably be better anyhow, given that most of the maintenance to the grounds, the machinery, and those sorts of thing, is done during the summer. Those would all be done by the fall, and they'd be in a better position to receive us at that point.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Lee Richardson

Okay, not to keep the committee here, what we've done is reschedule the Calgary meetings to here on that day. It sounds as if it might be more advantageous for the committee to do this in the fall, with a little more information in our heads. The water aspect is one that I wouldn't have thought about previously in regard to a visit to Fort McMurray and the oil sands, so it may turn out just as well.

That's it, then. We will reconvene on Thursday for the mining group. Thank you for your attendance.

The meeting is adjourned to the call of the chair.