Environment committee  I don't have a relationship with Parks Canada as I'm not employed by or working for Parks Canada. At the moment I have a small contract to monitor bird strikes in the wind turbine area at the Sable Island station, but that's about it. I have a relationship with the offshore boa

Environment committee  Yes. My experience, and I'll just use one example, would be the regulations imposed by the Offshore Petroleum Board on, for instance, the seabird surveys that I conduct.... The monitoring and the oversight of activities and the very stringent requirements for assessments and repo

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  As I said, I agree with the concerns expressed by the Ecology Action Centre. My feeling is that because of the circumstances and the difficulties that the island has faced during the last 15 years in terms of who is going to manage it, how it's going to be managed, what is to bec

Environment committee  Well, I would start by saying that I agree with almost all the concerns expressed by Mark Butler regarding activities around the island and how they might have been better approached. However, I've been involved on the island for so long. I have worked, have been involved, and

Environment committee  [Inaudible—Editor]...improvement, for sure.

Environment committee  Yes, it does.

Environment committee  Hello. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to address the committee. I began working on Sable Island in 1974, and since the mid-1980s I've spent eight to eleven months on the island each year. My work has included dune restoration studies, studies of seals and horses, bio

Environment committee  Okay, do you want to go to just asking any questions?

Environment committee  Should I start from the beginning?

Environment committee  In the mid-1990s, I became involved in the campaign to address the long-term problem of securing government commitment for support of the Sable Island station. This involved working with the Ecology Action Centre and Mark Butler. To ensure environmental protection and conservati