Environment committee  It is substantially larger.

Environment committee  To be clear on the recommendation, what we're saying is no additional projects that require water withdrawals from the Athabasca River, so that sets aside in situ. I'm not an expert on in situ development, and that's why it wasn't covered in the brief. In terms of what opportun

Environment committee  Yes, I need to catch up on the numbers, but as I understand it there are two critical drivers, and the dam is one of them. There's also the impact of climate change on that river as well, in fact, on the Peace-Athabasca Delta itself. It is a net loss of water from the Peace-Athab

Environment committee  I guess my advice would be to look back to the DFO biologists and see what they proposed. In fact, what they proposed was a cap. I don't have those numbers at my disposal. If I can access them through my staff, I certainly will pass them on to you, but that would be my advice. Th

Environment committee  I can be brief, because I can be clear that we don't have a firm position on that as an organization. As I said in my opening statement, at this point in time we feel that we don't have the sufficient information to actually form that position, and personally, I'm not as well ver

Environment committee  I can provide that after the fact, if that benefits the committee, and I would be happy to do so. You raise a very important point, and that does point to cumulative impacts of various developments on a watershed basis. You're very correct if what you're saying is that impacts

Environment committee  My perspective is about the same, but it's a critically important point. When you think about something like the P2FC, the phase two management framework, it is scoped around the lower Athabasca River. That's appropriate because it was a scoped stakeholder engagement approach.

Environment committee  I can start there, though I can't provide you with specific information on what occurred from pipeline leakage or fracture or issues in that respect. But again, it raises an interesting and important point that I intended to include in my brief, but I didn't want to give you guys

Environment committee  I can speak on a limited capacity to the phase two framework, but I don't sit at the table on behalf of our organization. The federal government, through DFO, is actively involved in developing the science, helping with the science, and participating in the decision-making proc

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. I am not a climate change expert with the WWF. My portfolio, as it were, is freshwater. I recall from the earlier sessions that you brought up an interesting point, however, that the emission of greenhouse gases from the oil sands industry, as well a

Environment committee  I fully agree with Simon. I would suggest that this is a persistent problem around water issues and not limited to the Athabasca or the oil sands, the ability to access data around fresh water. In part, it's because there are multiple jurisdictions involved in this. I agree whole

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  What I didn't say was what is in parentheses, because it was challenging to fit into my talk.

Environment committee  It presumes that the phase two recommendation reflects an appropriate management approach to protect the ecosystem.

Environment committee  I can't tell you at the moment. I'll have to figure out if I can find that out.