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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I'll answer that. Our current legislation applies to only reserve lands that have been surrendered or designated for oil and gas administration. There are a number of lands that are involved in land claims or TLE processes--that's treaty land entitlement processes--where the fir
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes. For example, if the land is through a treaty land entitlement process, that land becomes part of reserve lands. In that process is a vote by the membership to accept the land as reserve lands, but also there's a designation for oil and gas administration in that vote. When t
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee There've been a number of times we've had discussions in this process--various chiefs and councils, oil and gas technicians, legal counsels. In fact, through some of the work through the Stoneys and their legal counsel, there have been at least four amendments that have found the
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I'll respond to that. When land is available on first nations, we work with chief and council to post those lands. We get interest from the companies, then we sit down with the first nation and the company. Usually the first nation is involved in the negotiation of the royalties
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee It depends on the first nation, the area that's available, how badly the company wants it, and what's going on, of course, around the reserve.
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, and also, I think, with the provinces.... For example, in Alberta, they have an orphan well fund. If it cannot be identified who owns a well, they would come in on the reserve and use that fund to properly abandon the well. So this is a case where it's good we're working c
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I guess that could be a process. I want to emphasize that we're not taking all provincial authorities or powers. Certain aspects of them, where we're silent--
March 12th, 2009Committee meeting
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee No, no, just certain parts of the environment and conservation. So we'll be applying those. Each province is different. Our goal is to make sure that the first nation in that province is competitive. We want to have a regime where it's different from the provinces and first nat
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee It's the issue of how the money is managed.
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee After it's collected and put into the trust accounts.
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Right. And our mandate is to do the collection and deposit it into the different trust accounts. Then our responsibility basically is completed.
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We're liable for the royalties, the verification of those royalties, and then the deposit of those royalties into the different trust accounts. That's our responsibility.
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