Committee Members |
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| Gerry DeSorcy - Chairman | Marilyn Craig - Secretariat |
| David Spink – AB Environment | Judith Bugg – Public-at-large |
| Cindy Miller-Reade – AB Municipal Affairs | Maureen Bolen – AB Agriculture |
| David Pryce* – Oil & Gas Industry | Ron Wolsey – Disaster Services |
| Bob Clark – Land Dev. Industry | John Squarek – Oil & Gas Industry |
| Bart Guyon – AAMD&C | Marjorie Young – City of Calgary Admin. |
| Barry Virtue – AUMA | Brent Friesen – Regional Health Auth. |
| Tim Lambert** – Regional Health Auth. | Paul Jackson – Public-at-large |
| Kevin McLeod – AB Health | Dan Clarke – AB Human Resources |
| John Kerkoven*** – Oil & Gas Industry | James Gladysz# - B.C. Oil & Gas Comm. |
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EUB Board and Staff |
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| Arden Berg | Harry Lillo |
| David DeGagne | Eileen Kahler |
| Cliff Supernault | |
Committee Members Absent |
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| Steve Hrudey – Risk Research | David Wilson – Risk Research |
| Randy Gossen – Oil & Gas Industry | Rob McManus – B.C. Oil & Gas Comm. |
| Brian Winter – Public-at-large | Rob Ollerenshaw – Land Dev. Industry |
| Frank George – Oil & Gas Industry |
The meeting was opened and members welcomed by Chairman, Gerry DeSorcy. Several new members or alternates were present and everyone introduced themselves.
Minutes of the 31 March meeting were approved with the following two amendments:
Item 6&7: third bullet under “What is the Purpose of consulting with the public?” was amended to read “Listening and assurance that action will be taken.” First bullet under “When do we consult?” was amended to read “At convenience of those being consulted – time of day, day of week, season.” These minutes will now be posted on the committee web site.
Dave DeGagne presented an overview of the educational material that had been presented to the committee to date for the purpose of identifying areas where the committee may need more education at this time. The committee identified the following two topic areas for which they felt they needed more education: the EUB’s legal process for decision-making including the routine vs. non-routine applications process, and the EUB’s relationship with other agencies or jurisdictions including an understanding of any memoranda of understanding (MOU’s) currently in place (eg. Regional Health Authorities, Alberta Environment, First Nations).
Action Item: Harry will co-ordinate arrangements for further presentations at future meetings by EUB staff or others on these topics.
Dave DeGagne also presented the summary list of issues developed so far from the submissions by committee members for the purpose of ensuring that the list was clear and complete. A lengthy discussion took place throughout and many changes/additions were suggested. Gerry indicated that issues could be added in the future as they arise if not already covered.
Action Item: Marilyn will revise the issues list incorporating changes/additions agreed to and will forward a revised list to members on or before Monday 17 April. Members were asked to review the list to ensure that issues were accurately captured. Any changes or additions are to be forwarded to Marilyn as soon as possible.
A discussion took place regarding how the committee may wish to proceed with further re-working and addressing of the issues. Two key objectives were identified: 1) the need to prepare the list of issues in a manner which can be used as part of the committee’s outreach process. The committee agreed that it is inherent that the committee’s list of issues be provided to the public and that feedback is received. 2) the need to determine whether or not each issue is being appropriately handled within the current regulatory framework and, if not, the need to recommend changes. An issues sub-group was formed to consider these matters.
Action Item: The issues sub-group consisting of Frank George, Bob Clark, Brent Friesen, John Squarek, Cindy Miller-Reade, David DeGagne and Gerry DeSorcy will re-work the issues list, determine broad categories of issues and prepare the issues into a form properly worded for public outreach. Committee members were asked to provide Marilyn with their views on broad issues categories by the end of the day Monday 17 April. The sub-committee will report back to the committee at the meeting of 28 April.
Maureen provided an overview of the Communication Sub-group’s report provided to committee members. A discussion of possible approaches to public outreach took place. Many views were expressed with respect to the purpose of public outreach and the extent of education that would take place. It was agreed that the committee was going out to listen and learn about issues in the communities and to use the input received, including possible solutions, in its review of the adequacy of the current regulatory framework and in the development of the committee’s findings and recommendations. It was also agreed that there is a need to develop a background report to be provided to the public in advance of public consultation. It must be clear to the public that the values and beliefs presented during public outreach reflect the views of the committee and that the public meetings are Advisory Committee meetings, not EUB meetings.
It was agreed that a consultant needs to be engaged to assist the committee with its public consultation process and to manage the public input received.
Action Item: The Communications sub-committee was asked to hire a consultant as soon as possible to assist in the development of a public consultation process. The consultant should be capable of designing and conducting public consultation and managing/reporting on the feedback received. The consultant will be supervised by the committee, not the EUB. Committee members were asked to provide names of possible consultants the sub-committee could consider to Marilyn by the end of the day Monday 17 April. The sub-committee will continue to consider the development of a brochure/information package to be used in public consultation. The sub-committee will report its progress to the Advisory Committee on 28 April. Marjorie Young agreed to provide assistance to the Communications Sub-committee.
Committee members were asked if there were any outstanding issues/questions regarding the report of the ‘93’94 process previously distributed. There was interest in further understanding of the reasons why no further action was taken on some of the recommendations made.
Action Item: Where possible Marilyn will provide the committee with a more detailed report of the reasons why action was or was not taken on the recommendations.
Action Item: Marilyn will provide the committee with the list of 12 main issues categories identified by the ‘93’94 committee by the end of the day Monday 17 April.
Action Item: Committee members were asked to look at the web site and provide any comments or suggestions to Marilyn.
Next Meeting: 28 April 9:00am West Hall, Energy Resources Building
Additional meeting dates scheduled: 12 May, 26 May, 23 June.
