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Environment committee  We can provide more information on that, yes.

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  I think there are some good examples there of the equivalence and substitution piece we talked about and also how timelines are applied. We'll follow up on that.

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  My short answer is this. I would just like to be really clear. Our view is that more regulation is not necessarily better regulation, but a foundation of all of this has to be environmental performance. Nobody's disputing that. I would come back to two things. One thing is the e

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  We can provide those submissions for you. I'd be happy to do that. I guess my observation would be that we've not done as good a job on the regulatory process as we've done on managing the financial side of the system, and there's an opportunity to improve.

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  We have many analogies to the culvert example. It's just an example of an assessment being triggered over a rather trivial and routine issue. I talked earlier about the Mackenzie Valley experience, which nobody wants to repeat. I think there are some good lessons to be learned p

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  Very quickly, I think we've talked about most of them, and they'll be addressed further in our submission, but the equivalence and substitution timelines, addressing the aboriginal consultation issue, and I think, very importantly—and I come back to reinforce this—the question of

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  My view is they're very rigorous, and these projects are subject to extensive scrutiny. There is not a marked difference between the two.

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  I can talk about that in the context of oil sands mining, where often the federal trigger is legitimately triggered by a relatively small issue, some impact on water course, for example. That invokes federal involvement in the process. There's a very, very extensive provincial re

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  First of all, it should focus on environmental effects. That's the first message. Second, I think we need to look at the full suite of that, a positive ending, and understand the full impact of the project in all respects, but it should focus on environment. Very quickly, just

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  Absolutely. It can be helped if the federal and provincial governments work with industry and others to put in place better monitoring programs, verification programs. We need a baseline of good science. That should be there to inform decision-making, and we're strongly supportiv

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  I'll just be very quick. We're obviously supportive of timelines. We think they're a step in the right direction. We think there's an opportunity to go further in terms of the integration of the federal and provincial processes, which would help further in terms of solidifying ti

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  We respect the government's obligation to consult and reasonably accommodate, and we respect the role we have to play in that. That's what we do.

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  Thanks for the question. I would strongly reinforce your premise that we need to find a way to make all of this work. We need economic growth, we need to protect the environment, and we need to find ways for the major stakeholders--aboriginal people--to be involved in the proce

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer

Environment committee  I would just reiterate the same point. Compliance is the minimum requirement. I agree with Pierre that there's an opportunity to improve the clarity on compliance requirements, but in looking at any new energy project, compliance is the minimum threshold. We often try, for econom

November 17th, 2011Committee meeting

David Collyer