| REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE |
THURSDAY, March 11, 2004 |
The Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
has the honour to present its
FIFTH REPORT
Your
Committee, was authorized by the Senate on February 10, 2004, to examine and
report on emerging issues related to its mandate.
Pursuant to Section 2:07 of the Procedural Guidelines for the Financial Operation of Senate Committees, the budget submitted to the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration and the report thereon of that Committee are appended to this report.
Respectfully submitted,
Tommy
Banks
Chair
SPECIAL
STUDY
APPLICATION
FOR BUDGET AUTHORIZATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 2005
Extract from the Journals
of the Senate of Tuesday, February 10, 2004:
The Honourable Senator
Banks moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Grafstein:
THAT the
Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources be
authorized to examine and report on emerging issues related to its mandate:
(a) The
current state and future direction of production, distribution, consumption,
trade, security and sustainability of Canada's energy resources;
(b)
Environmental challenges facing Canada including responses to global climate
change, air pollution, biodiversity and ecological integrity;
(c)
Sustainable development and management of renewable and non-renewable natural
resources including water, minerals, soils, flora and fauna;
(d) Canada's
international treaty obligations affecting energy, the environment and natural
resources and their influence on Canada's economic and social development; and,
THAT
the papers and evidence received and taken during the Second Session of the
Thirty-seventh Parliament be referred to the Committee;
THAT the
Committee report to the Senate from time to time, no later than February 28,
2005, and that the Committee retain until March 31, 2005 all powers necessary to
publicize its findings.
The question being put
on the motion, it was adopted.
Paul
Bélisle
Clerk of the Senate
APPENDIX (B) TO THE REPORT
Thursday, March 11, 2004
The
Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration has examined
the budget presented to it by the Standing
Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment, and Natural Resources
for the proposed expenditures of the said Committee for the fiscal year ending
March 31, 2005 for the purpose of examining and reporting on emerging issues
related to its mandate, as authorized by the Senate on Tuesday, February 10,
2004. The approved budget
is as follows: