Natural Resources committee  Maybe I can take the first stab at answering the question and then pass it over to Scott for any additional comments. Just about all of the information that our board receives in its day-to-day regulation of operators is deemed to be proprietary information. It's protected under

Natural Resources committee  Okay. Mr. Chair, and members, thank you for the invitation for the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, what we call the C-NSOPB, to appear before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources regarding Bill C-5, the offshore health and safety act. My name is Stuart Pin

Environment committee  We've had an excellent working relationship with Parks Canada since this idea was conceived back in 2010. We've participated with them on the joint federal-provincial task force and on the working groups, and I think you sit on one of the working groups as well.

Environment committee  We'd definitely like to continue that dialogue. We want to work hand in hand with Parks Canada, looking at defining what type of low-impact exploration activities can take place and under what circumstances. We'd want to work with them on developing the protocol, if and when we e

Environment committee  From what I can tell from the debate, people are focusing on seismic activity. I think we heard Mr. Barry say that the seismic data that is available at the moment is of pretty good quality, so there's no need in the foreseeable future to be collecting more seismic work. But we

Environment committee  I'd have to do some quick math.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Could I very quickly add to that? Any operator who wanted to go onshore would have to abide by the parks management manual as well.

Environment committee  I'd respond by saying the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board does not promote exploration and development in the offshore. The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board's responsibility is to regulate those companies that step forward and say that they have a desire to

Environment committee  As part of an activity authorization that we may receive, a full environmental assessment is done. Elizabeth just explained some of the ins and outs of that. Consultation from a scientific perspective is a significant component of that. We will take environmental assessments th

Environment committee  Parks Canada would certainly have all of their input, and I can't really foresee a situation where we would not accept the input from Parks Canada. But with all due respect, Parks Canada is not the expert—and they would say the same thing—in oil and gas activities and in the mana

Environment committee  No, the first thing that we would do.... When you look at Sable Island, we would look at this in a two-part process, actually a multi-part process. When you get right to the environmental assessment piece, we would use the CEAA definition, which means we would look to make sure

Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  Elizabeth, do you want to talk about that?

Environment committee  It might even be a little bit deeper than that. It's two kilometres at the shallowest. There are three fields that sit under Sable Island. There's Olympia West Sable...there are two west Sable fields. The numbers I have for the three fields are anywhere from two kilometres to fiv