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Offshore O&G presentations

Reporting back to community

Consultants and Rupertites to Atlantic Canada for answers

Their WWW site has good intro

Oil & Community

	For Answers to community concerns went to Atlantic Canada
	Narrative of the offshore oil and rigs etc then followed by individuals from Rupert who gave their impressions of what they saw

	This is the group that went
	Rick Miller from Rupert and the Tsimshian Tribal Council spoke along with Erika Rolston And Teresa Ryan all from PR

	Regulations
	The consultants seemed to think BC would copy Atlantic regulations and that was being done “as we speak”. Locals seemed to think ‘we’ could select from other models – like Norway and AK --- for more public involvement --- Who knows we might have 2 of 7 Board members from 1^st nations along with feds and province.

Lots of excellent refs for researching Oil

Report of the Expert Panel on Science Issues Related to Oil and Gas Activities, Offshore British Columbia http://www.rsc.ca/BC_offshore/reportpageEN.html And if you want to delve a little more into the science and technical aspects of oil and gas: British Columbia Offshore Oil and Gas Technology Report http://www.offshoreoilandgas.gov.bc.ca/reports/jwl-report/ Other useful sites: Offshore Oil & Gas in BC (History, chronology of dvlpt, moratoria issues etc) http://www.offshoreoilandgas.gov.bc.ca/offshore-oil-and-gas-in-bc/

Created by LG Wednesday, March 03, 2004