Thank you, Madam Chair, and thanks to Mr. Fulford. That’s good information to have and I appreciate that. I’ll maybe just postpone any further discussion on that aspect. I believe that’s all I had. Yes, that’s it. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Other general comments on Bill 11, Petroleum Resources Act? Ms. Bisaro.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I just wanted to ask one other question. There are a number of regulations, I gather, under the Canada Petroleum Resources Act. Is my understanding correct that these regulations, Environmental Studies Research Fund regulations, Frontier Lands Petroleum Royalty Regulations, Frontier Lands Registration Regulations, will those be mirrored as the act has been mirrored?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Aitken.

Thanks, Mr. Aitken. One last question. I guess it’s a comment, really. I notice that it was in Bill 10, as well, and I’m pretty sure that it’s in some of the other bills, also, but closure and reclamation of developments isn’t really covered, I don’t believe, in probably any of these acts, and it kind of goes to the same issue of financial security that Mr. Bromley was talking about. Do we have in these bills as we mirror them, do we have what the general public would consider as adequate financial security and adequate requirements for closure and remediation plans when a development is finished?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Fulford.

Thanks to Mr. Fulford for that. I kind of thought that was the case. I think my concern is that the requirement may be there, but as I understand it, the amount of either the financial security or the need to have the closure and the reclamation plans is up to the regulator, and if the regulator makes a determination and determines an amount of money that is not what is required or accepts a remediation plan that’s in its infancy and isn’t updated over the years as the development occurs, we’re going to be left holding the bag when the development ends or it folds in the midst of production and everybody runs away and we’re left cleaning things up.

I think my question goes more to what there is either within the regulations or within the act that we can use, one, to make sure that the regulator sets appropriate amounts of financial security and demands appropriate closure and reclamation plans, and secondly, what do we have that’s going to enforce whatever it is that’s decided on for a development?

Great explanation, but it doesn’t give me much comfort. I didn’t really hear that there are any enforcement capabilities, and it’s something that concerns me, particularly in a number of areas as devolution comes forward. We’ve got a lot of operating mines, for instance, which, as we’ve heard over the last couple of weeks, don’t have adequate security for their closure plans, and this sounds to me like it’s similar. We’re going to have a regulator who makes a decision, but will the regulator be using somebody to determine that the amount of money that’s declared is accurate and is appropriate, and if we don’t get the money from the company, who’s going to make sure that we get it?

That’s good. Thanks.

You’re good? Okay. General comments.

Detail. Bill 11, Petroleum Resources Act. We will go through the clauses in groups of 10 again. Is committee agreed?

Thank you. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The motion is in order. Mr. Miltenberger.

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Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. To the motion.

Question is being called. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Clause 1, as amended.