Environment committee  Absolutely. Yes.

Environment committee  There are two levels. With respect to environmental assessment, there are a couple different venues through which we will engage the public and stakeholders and indigenous groups. As I mentioned, we do strategic environmental assessments—broad based, large geographic areas—every

Environment committee  Maybe a good proxy for the discussion is to look at our nominations and calls for bids. We have seen record numbers in years gone by, and we had a relatively modest offering in uptake last year. We have a call that closes in November. I suggest that the committee should all kee

Environment committee  Regional assessment offers the potential to be highly beneficial for governments, proponents, indigenous groups, stakeholders, and us as the regulator. I'm excited about the potential for a regional assessment to be evergreen, as opposed to our strategic environmental assessment,

Environment committee  We aren't a development agency in the context that's commonly known in Ottawa, such as a regional development agency. We do have a broad mandate that includes resource management and industrial benefits, just to clarify that for the record. In terms of employment, I want to sa

Environment committee  It's something in the order of 16% to 20% of the provincial economy, even now, and it has been as high as a third in the past.

Environment committee  Yes, the typical offshore operator is part of a global enterprise, and there is a competitive element within those global enterprises for investment. They have investment opportunities all over the world, and certainly a priority of governments is to make the Canada-Newfoundland

Environment committee  I don't know. There are certainly competitiveness challenges faced in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. I will say that the industry assesses the attractiveness of a region based on below-the-hole considerations, so that's the geophysics and geoscience, and the above-the-hole c

Environment committee  I think we're already seeing an evolution in the industry in terms of its engagement with indigenous people. The federal government has certainly taken an expansive view and placed a high priority on reconciliation with indigenous people, and the industry is following in that vei

Environment committee  In terms of the question as to whether things will be faster, I don't know. I think there is certainly opportunity for improvement, but that would be conditional on processes and roles and responsibilities being streamlined. It's a question of how well resourced the regulatory ag

Environment committee  There will be a fundamental reset of our working relationship with the federal government, and the establishment of the impact assessment act and the impact assessment agency is going to change our day-to-day operations. We'll work more closely with those federal agencies, and we

Environment committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to share our views on Bill C-69. I've had the privilege of leading a world-class safety and environmental regulator since 2013. For over 30 years, the C-NLOPB has served as an effective agent of independent joint management of th

Natural Resources committee  An “independent safety regulator” in the context which the member is suggesting would not come to a different conclusion with respect to 30-minute run-dry capability in our offshore.

Natural Resources committee  In the most recent suite of Transport Canada—

Natural Resources committee  Sixteen have been fully implemented to this point.