Mr. Scott Vaughan at the Natural Resources Committee

On February 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2013 / 3:40 p.m.

Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

I'll defer to my colleague, Ms. Leach.

The offshore oil and gas platform liability down the Atlantic coast is $30 million. For the Arctic, it's $40 million. Compared with that of other countries, in the United Kingdom, for example, it's $250 million. In Greenland and in Norway, they're both unlimited. Greenland has a threshold of a billion dollars in one of the demonstrations for safety, but unlimited in terms of liability across the board.

I mention those three because the conditions in Greenland and the United Kingdom are similar to conditions in Hibernia.

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