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Fisheries committee Thank you. Mr. Chair, I plan to be in your riding next week, so I'll drop by your constituency office for one of those cupcakes.
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to your committee today. My name is Paul Barnes. I am director of Atlantic Canada and Arctic for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, which is also known as CAPP. CAPP is an association of oil and gas companies
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee I guess our biggest fear would arise if there are already licences in that particular area, because there would obviously have been a decision made by an oil and gas company or a consortium of companies to invest in an area. If a subsequent decision is made to have a marine prote
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee As I said in my remarks, in the Atlantic Canada region, we employ more than 9,000 people directly and tens of thousands more indirectly. The industry has brought significant benefits, and it's most active at the moment in Newfoundland's offshore. Until recently, 30% of the gros
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee Yes, we've been an active participant in a variety of stakeholder groups, as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans leads the marine protected area development. I personally have been involved in the Laurentian Channel MPA in Newfoundland, two in Nova Scotia, and one in the Beauf
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee I am familiar with that provision. It will have an impact of course if there is an oil and gas company that has a licence in a proposed MPA area and that licence is revoked. The legislation though also contemplates that licence-holders will be compensated if indeed their licence
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee It's good and bad. It's good in a sense that it's in there that if the government wants to take away a licence, the licence owner is compensated. It's bad in the sense that it does send a bit of a negative signal to international investors, because the oil and gas companies come
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee I would agree as well that the Canadian government should look after its country, obviously, by keeping an eye on the international scene, because as a country we do compete with other international jurisdictions. We need to be cognizant of that, but we certainly do need to prote
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee Typically, in the offshore industry it takes about 10 years to do adequate exploration, and that's everything from seismic to understanding where an oil and gas prospect may be to actually drilling it. If you're lucky enough within that 10-year period to find something, it usuall
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Fisheries committee Certainly I don't have any exact statistics with me here. There have been some hydrocarbon spills into the ocean off Newfoundland. The government...and the Offshore Petroleum Board, which regulates our industry, do have that information. It's published on their public website, so
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Environment committee Thank you. I'll try to answer the questions there. On the first one with respect to whether the new bill recognizes the offshore petroleum boards, there is some recognition for the boards, both boards, when it comes to the review panel, but in some other aspects of the act, ther
March 28th, 2018Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Natural Resources committee Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to provide comments related to Bill C-49. As the chair mentioned, my name is Paul Barnes, and I am director of Atlantic Canada and Arctic with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers or CAPP. I am based in St. John
February 12th, 2024Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Natural Resources committee Sure. Thank you. As I mentioned in my comments, most of this bill is directed towards the renewable sector side of the industry, so we're not opposed to the bill. We have some clauses of the bill that we would like to propose some improvements or amendments to, to make the bill
February 12th, 2024Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Natural Resources committee I'm assuming that, when you say “since Sable Island”, you mean after the last offshore land sale.
February 12th, 2024Committee meeting
Paul Barnes
Natural Resources committee To my knowledge, industry has not put forward any additional land parcels.
February 12th, 2024Committee meeting
Paul Barnes