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Very Little Public about the Review
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) terms of reference
for the public review of the Cape Breton oil and gas exploration leases
(2364, 2365, & 2368) are out (see more background information and TOR
below).
One commissioner will decide everything, instead of a panel. There is no
intervenor funding. And most appalling, the commissioner's work is time
limited. The commissioner will be appointed by the CNSOPB, both promoter
and regulator of oil and gas, a direct conflict of interest. The TOR call
for the Commissioner (not yet announced but expected to be a Cape Bretoner)
to complete his work and report no later than 250 days from the confirmation
of the TOR. 250 from start to finish. All the hearings, all the evidence,
and all the commissioner's deliberations and writing of the report in 250
days. It brings new meaning to "quick and dirty."
We need coordinated action around the review, and it is very important to
work on getting more than one commissioner, good commissioners, and meetings
held on PEI {and Halifax}.
We need as many letters in to the ministers about the narrow terms of
reference. Unfortunately (but expected), there is no room for looking at the
bigger policy questions: Should we even be exploiting these reserves at
this time or ever? Where does this activity put us vis a vis international
commitments on fossil fuel reduction? What about the interference with
Ocean Act goals and activities?
VOICE YOUR CONCERNS about this and aim your fire at the federal government.
CNSOPB is now under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA). The
feds are paying for this hearing in cost-sharing with the province.
Minister Anderson's personal history is in protecting coastal areas from oil
and gas spills in BC. Let's deluge his office with calls and faxes and
demands that he ensure that the CNSOPB be required to operate under CEAA
rules. Also pressure Goodale, whose office thought the process would be
CEAA-like and Tobin who committed to push for a proper panel review. Letters
to Dhaliwal make sense too. And, for what it is worth, we must also send
comments in to the CNSOPB.
Spread the word, we only have 30 days!!!!!
Cyndi Gilbert
Sierra Club of Canada
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