Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

Second Session Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2007

Chair: The Honourable TOMMY BANKS

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Tuesday, December 13, 2007

Issue No. 3

Fourth meeting on:

The subject-matter of Bill S-208, An Act to require the Minister of the Environment to establish, in co-operation with the provinces, an agency with the power to identify and protect Canada's watersheds that will constitute sources of drinking water in the future

and

First, second and third (final) meetings on:

Bill C-15, An Act respecting the exploitation of the Donkin coal block and employment in or in connection with the operation of a mine that is wholly or partly at the Donkin coal block, and to make a consequential amendment to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act and

First meeting on:

Review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (1999, c. 33) pursuant to subsection 343(1) of the said act

INCLUDING:
THE SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special study budget 2007-08 — Emerging issues)

and

THE THIRD REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Bill C-15)

APPEARING:

The Honourable Gary Lunn, P.C., M.P., Minister of Natural Resources.

WITNESSES:

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Natural Resources Canada:

Stephen Lucas, Assistant Deputy Minister, Minerals and Metals Sector;

Anne-Marie Fortin, Senior Counsel, Legal Services.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Xstrata Coal:

Jamie Frankcombe, General Manager, Xstrata Coal Americas;

Darren Nicholls, Project Manager, Xstrata Coal Donkin;

Fred Dickson, Lawyer, McInnes & Cooper and Strategy Advisor, Xstrata Coal Donkin.

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency:

Peter Sylvester, President;

Steve Burgess, Acting Vice-President, Program Delivery.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Tommy Banks, Chair

The Honourable Pierre Claude Nolin, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Adams, Brown, Campbell, , Cochrane, *Hervieux-Payette, P.C., (or Tardif), Kenny,
*LeBreton, P.C., (or Comeau), Milne, Mitchell, Sibbeston, Spivak, Trenholme Counsell,

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Phalen substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Trenholme Counsell (December 11, 2007).

The name of the Honourable Senator Trenholme Counsell substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Phalen (December 12, 2007).

The name of the Honourable Senator Moore substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Adams (December 12, 2007).

The name of the Honourable Senator Adams substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Moore (December 13, 2007).