Environment committee  Thank you. Good morning, Madam Chair, and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to join you today to share our industry's views during your review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. My name is Sherry Sian, and I am manager of environment at the Canadian

Environment committee  I am.

Environment committee  I think what I would say is we're recognizing as an industry that the public expectations around performance are changing. As we're starting to develop better and more robust systems, which help us better understand the emergent problems in the environment, it's demanding more of

Environment committee  I would say that it varies. There are a number of factors that affect different company positions. There is diversity within the industry in terms of approaches and best ways of dealing with those expectations.

Environment committee  I'm not directly engaged in it.

Environment committee  Actually, different parts of our organization would be involved in relation to event planning and helping to set the agenda. It's possible that one of our other operational units is more directly tied in. I'm happy to look into that.

Environment committee  Yes, I am. I am seeing that in terms of trying to evolve our.... We've been increasingly focused on collecting data and analyzing challenges in terms of performance in a more robust way, looking through all phases of our activity and using that frame of reference to look at whe

Environment committee  The industry has been focused on hydraulic fracking and additives for some time. One of the initiatives we had been engaged in was the development of FracFocus, which is intended to provide transparent and publicly available data about hydraulic fracturing in B.C., Alberta, and t

Environment committee  I would need to look into why that hasn't been captured, Nathan. I'm afraid I can't respond to that question.

Environment committee  We're increasingly seeing that interest from the public. I think it's important to be able to respond to a local need to know. There is tremendous opportunity to make enhancements to the data systems to allow for greater transparency in that regard.

Environment committee  We don't, but we certainly could put forward our proposal. We would like to give it more thought. I think the issue is really how to use those definitions to inform the nature of assessment and problem definition attached to substances so that there is an appropriate response.

Environment committee  I think this speaks a bit to the comment we had regarding data and information systems, in that our members experience, or are subject to, multiple reporting obligations through various systems. I think the question is whether or not there are opportunities to achieve greater cla

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I think it would have some utility in terms of being introduced in the preamble to the act to serve as a guiding principle for application.

Environment committee  That's not to say that it couldn't be done, and I would probably have to look at a proposal, but I struggle to think how you would write all those elements into regulation.