Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I guess the devil is in the details. That all sounded very good, but I would simply caution that we thought we had a good system prior to Exxon Valdez for tanker shipment; however, there was complacency that came into the system, within both the indus

Finance committee  If I could make one last comment on that, I commend you for that vigilance, and please don't lose it. As good as you think it is, and as good as we think ours is in Prince William Sound, we have to remain vigilant to make sure that it stays as safe as possible, and we have to con

Finance committee  There are condensate tankers, for instance, calling at Kitimat now without tug escorts, and these could possibly cause a serious problem. There are tankers calling in B.C. ports without tug escorts, which I think would be worth looking at.

Finance committee  I would say, as a biologist, that in a perfect world we would not allow seismic surveys in offshore marine ecosystems simply because these are extremely loud sound sources, 230 to 250 decibels, which are in the order of magnitude louder than being a metre away from a 747 engine o

Finance committee  It seems, Madam, that everything you mention there is absolutely critical to reducing the environmental risk from tanker transport of hazardous substances such as oil. I would encourage the Government of Canada—and I think you have done this in many ways—to look at additional mea

Finance committee  I appreciate the question. That could take many hours. We learned our lesson the hard way with Deepwater Horizon, as we did 23 years ago with the Exxon Valdez , right here in Alaska. We got tanker shipping fixed after that, by and large, but we did not fix offshore drilling and

Finance committee  It is my position that both the United States and Canada need to enhance...we need to raise the bar on environmental regulation of the offshore oil and gas industry, and particularly the oil spill risk that it imposes, but also the risks and impacts we know about from seismic exp

Finance committee  Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to provide my comments on that specific provision of Bill C-38 as well, the exemption for foreign-flagged vessels. On its surface, it's not a bad idea per se, but I would caution with one caveat, and that is you have to have a very good g