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Finance committee Both the dollars and the credits available are very important to why people participate in a program like this. If you think about land and land conservation, really there are private benefits that are being received from the land. There are also public benefits that are being re
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee I haven't looked at it. Sorry.
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee Thank you.
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee Part of it is not just convincing people to do it. What we have found is that if you scratch people just a little bit...you'll find there are a lot of people who are actually quite keen about conservation underneath all the other things they do. What we've been finding over the p
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee We're a member of the Green Budget Coalition, and every year there are proposals that are prepared by the Green Budget Coalition and presented to the committees and various others. That said, the coalition also has each individual group present their own interest areas, so that's
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee That's not an area of expertise that our particular group has, so I wouldn't be able to speak to that. We're an on-the-ground conservation services organization, so basically we focus on what we can achieve for habitat conservation. That's what we do.
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee Yes. As a pilot project, we've taken a look at whether this is an area—as you may know, in British Columbia there's a system for carbon credits, and we took a look at whether there is something here that can help with providing funds for the ongoing stewardship of lands. It's not
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee We wouldn't have a sense of what it would be in terms of a calculation. Clearly, all growing material sequesters carbon. The more that happens, you will end up with a...except for all the buffer you have to build into it with regard to disease, fire, etc., that may impact upon it
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Finance committee The 3,200 square kilometres that we have, to give a sense of size, is actually about more than four times the currently mined oil sands area in northern Alberta. It's not an insubstantial amount of land that is being conserved. If we can figure out how to both develop our economy
November 19th, 2012Committee meeting
John Lounds
Environment committee Thank you. Good morning, bonjour. Thank you for the opportunity to present today. I'm John Lounds, president and CEO of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Joining me today is Michael Bradstreet, who's our vice-president of conservation, and Lisa McLaughlin, who heads up our secur
May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting
John Lounds
Environment committee Thank you. For those of you who are not familiar with the IUCN categories, there are seven categories of protected status of lands, but generally the ones that are used to calculate whether lands are protected in countries and measured internationally are the top four categories
May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting
John Lounds
Environment committee I might ask Michael to help me answer that question. I'd say that with the work we're doing on the ground, what we're dealing with is the potential that perhaps at some point there might be, say, oil found under that particular property and therefore we wouldn't be able to cond
May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting
John Lounds
Environment committee Certainly. Basically the way we do it is by focusing at the moment on these 82 natural areas. Within those natural areas, you'll have various properties. We're trying to have conservation arrangements on a core of those properties, and then to be able to link them within that n
May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting
John Lounds
Environment committee Obviously, Canada is a big country, and however you designate and define what is protected and conserved, we have a lot more land beyond that amount in a natural state. There's no question about that. The conservation question becomes, where do you need to focus the efforts of
May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting
John Lounds
Environment committee Well, it depends, as I said,—
May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting
John Lounds