Our read of this particular amendment would be that it removes “except in section 25.4” of the bill, which is a section that references the ability to conduct research on STAs, spill-treating agents, to demonstrate and to understand how they would be affected in the natural environment and how they work.
To the honourable member, the rest of the clause that remains would still permit the use of STAs under the conditions in which the bill spells it out. STAs can only be used when there's a net environmental benefit. They can only be used if the STAs are listed on regulations that are posted by the Minister of the Environment. They can only then be considered for use when the company puts them in their plan and lays out all of the conditions under which the plan would allow for their use. They can only be used when the conservation officer of the offshore board then approves that the plan may be used and invoked with the STA that's listed in the regulation because there's a net environmental benefit.
This amendment would still permit the use of STAs. It would not allow for the research on STAs to occur. That's at least according to the read that we have of the amendment.