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Other
Locations:
October
17 Leduc
October
18 Drayton Valley
October
19 Rocky Mountain House
October
23 Sundre
October
24 Grande Prairie
October
25 Red Deer
October
26 Calgary
October
30 Pincher Creek
Summary
Aboriginal
Summary
Response Forms
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1. DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
- Expressed confusion on whether or not the development
area included companies working together rather then
piece meal processes.
- Expressed concern about having to restart the process
with each new company that comes in for example, pipe
line company, well company etc.
- would like all parties to look at using a zonal
approach
- Not enough knowledge about what development will look
like in 10 years from now.
- A participant is concerned about an area in the
document that seems to contradict itself -- refer
to page 13 of "Directions Document" where it says
"Delineation and Recovery of Sour Gas reserves in a
timely manner". He feels that this contradicts with the
idea of minimizing the amount of wells. He wonders how
minimizing well production will help safety matters
because it will prolong the whole process. He feels that
the minimizing should refer to surface facilities
only.
- Alberta MD's should also be responsible for
developing and submitting developmental plans.
- Real estate brokers should also take a more active
role in familiarizing and sharing information about the
oil and gas developments past, present, and future,
including immigrants and others who may have never heard
of sour gas before.
- There is psychological angst over topsoil real estate
and bottom soil rights -- will the committee discuss a link
between the two?
- Create Resource development plan for extracting
resources with attention to present and future
demographic change- Have boards to govern these
extraction plans in each rural area.
- Define "rural area".
2. EUB ROLE
- Content of Regulations
- Make all incident reports public.
- Industry responsible to pay monetary penalties if
they misinform the landowners.
- EUB makes biased regulations for the industry and
that the regulations are intangible because of lack of
enforcement.
- Lack of enforcement because of lack of an Alberta Law
that would allow the EUB to enforce the regulations with
greater ease.
- EUB has its hands tied and can not do anything.
- Board should have the right to remove operator
licenses.
- EUB continues to license companies who do not have
proper technology or money to do the job right.
- Regulations should define what "acceptable risk" is
in one conservative model that is understandable and used
by everyone involved- would eliminate confusion and
debate at hearings.
- EUB regulations should have a one window approach
that is simple and specific, a this document should be
made available to the public.
- Effectiveness of field surveillance system and
other enforcement measures
- Studies and determinations of public safety standards
should be removed from the EUB and put in the hands of
the Health Authorities who by profession may have a
different perspective on human health issues.
- EUB does not have the knowledge needed to properly
assess risk.
- Health authority should collect necessary health info
rather then the industry.
- Health authorities should have permanent role and
seat with the EUB.
- EUB needs to be more internally coordinated and
communicative with each other (between departments) so
that action is taken when promised and that all
departments agree with an action that is to be
taken.
- EUB needs to have better communication with the
landowners.
- Difficult to get incident reports from EUB.
- Inaccurate incident reports/information coming from
EUB which is creating credibility issues with the
EUB.
- All releases should be recorded and should be a
mandatory law on reporting all incidents.
- EUB should focus more on dispersion models rather
than risk assessments.
- Application and Decision Process
- Health authority should have part in determining
applications and decisions as well as making
recommendations concerning human health issues.
- Entire potential project must be looked at during
application process.
- EUB and industry have one standardized package that
goes out to the public during application and development
stages.
- Relationship with Aboriginal
People
- More communication about EUB role in the First Nation
communities.
- The Aboriginal people have little knowledge about the
EUB.
- Would like to see final reports and existing
policies, how they will be managed and what will come of
the recommendations.
3. Monitoring
- Controlled areas are well monitored now.
- Places outside controlled areas should be as well as
monitored as within the controlled areas.
- Need more personal monitoring systems and financial
assistance for the personal monitoring systems.
4. Jurisdiction
5. Industry Procedures and Personnel
- Land men are not making the landowners aware of
risks/entirety of development plans.
- Land men should have to pass a Board presented exam
before he can approach the landowners.
- Great deal of misinformation from the industry to the
public.
- Industry/land owner relationships would be created
more effectively if the industry was honest about their
mistakes and then clean them up rather then cover them
up.
- Industry should deal with issues in a forthright and
mature manner.
- The fact that there is good trustworthy oil companies
needs to be made known to the public.
- Industry does not have problem with getting the info
to the people but does have a problem when new
regulations have to be implemented immediately.
- Industry needs to maintain its integrity over long
term operations
- One standardized package should be created to go out
to the people -- should be written with
non-technical jargon and made readable for the lay
person.
- Public should be informed of production using TV,
newspapers.
- Good companies should not product share with the bad
companies.
6. Emergency Response Planning and
Preparedness
- Emergency planning zones need to be more
stringent.
7. Understanding Health Effects
- Not enough resources in small rural areas.
- Funding should be provided for the education of
medical personal as well as for the purchasing of
necessary equipment in rural areas.
- Not enough experienced medical personal or facilities
to deal with chemically injured people.
- Aboriginal are more susceptible to the side effects
of sour gas exposure because of enzyme structure.
- What about the Overlapping /Cumulative risks?
- People who have been exposed and who are now or were
already chemically sensitive are more susceptible to long
low level exposure-are these people included in
determining health and safety levels?
- Area specific environmental issues should be a factor
in risk assessments
- should acquire Good Toxicology experts found in UK,
USA, Sweden (Birmingham University, Lester
University).
- Board makes mention on hazard identification but does
not address chronic low level exposures when it should
be
- More communication and info needed in order to reduce
stress levels.
8. Technical Knowledge
- EUB should focus more on dispersion models rather
than risk assessments.
9. Setbacks
- Feel that recommending increased setbacks is only an
avoidance of the problem.
- Should be utilizing new technologies that would
eliminate the necessity of setbacks (encapsulated
system).
10. Public Consultation by Industry
- Industry responsible to pay monetary penalties if
they misinform the landowners.
- Industry/land owner relationships would be created
more effectively if the industry was honest about their
mistakes and then clean them up rather then cover them
up.
- Industry should deal with issues in a forthright and
mature manner
- the fact that there is good trustworthy oil companies
needs to be made known to the public.
- Public should be informed of production using TV,
newspapers.
- Land men are not making the landowners aware of
risks/entirety of development plans.
11. Public Awareness and Education
- Oil and Gas brings economic prosperity to Alberta and
because if the prosperity there should be a positive
offset to that for example; education and building roads
with some of the money.
- More info on all the chemicals present in the
emissions should be available.
- EUB and industry have one standardized package that
goes out to the public during application and development
stages.
- More communication and info needed in order to reduce
stress levels.
12. Aboriginal Issues
- Would like to see final reports and existing
policies, how they will be managed and what will come of
the recommendations.
13. Implementation
14. Other/Non-Mandate but Important Issues
- Long term health effects are not being addressed by
anyone.
- These meetings are only serving to reinvent the
wheel.
- Industry is frustrated with EUB-it wants a level
playing field in relation to other companies.
- "Blackhats" of the industry should be under rigorous
scrutiny of daily their applications.
- EUB should have a mechanism that checklists and
tracks the good and bad companies.- good companies are
made known to the public- bad companies shut in.
- EUB needs a direction.
- EUB needs to become a regulator rather than an
auditor.
- EUB needs to be funded more so that they can hire
good long-term people.
- EUB needs to be impartial -- funding from the
industry and the possible implications of this need to be
resolved for people to be satisfied.
- Furnace filters to protect houses, reduce parts per
million substantially escape hoods 300-500% reduction of
parts per million -- he wants to make a
presentation to committee.
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