Charting a Path: Water and Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors – February 24, 2009
NRTEE convenes a meeting of experts to chart a path forward for its new Program on Water and Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors
On February 24th, 2009, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy hosted a workshop entitled “Charting a Path: Water and Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors”. The NRTEE solicited advice from close to 50 stakeholders from across Canada representing the natural resource sectors, academia, Aboriginal, non-governmental organizations and governments. The aim was to inform the NRTEE on where it could provide the greatest value and to confirm the key current and emerging issues and opportunities in the interface between the natural resources sectors, climate change, and water use.
The workshop was chaired by Christopher Hilkene, NRTEE Member and Chair of the Program’s Expert Advisory Committee. NRTEE members Elizabeth Brubaker, Richard Prokopanko, Robert Slater, Robert Dubé, and Robert Sopuck were also in attendance. Bill Borland, Chair of the Canadian Water Network and Vice President, Canadian Federal Programs, AMEC Earth Environmental, provided the opening address asking participants to consider where we [Canadians] want to be in terms of management and preserving our freshwater resources in the next 10-20 years. NRTEE Senior Policy Advisor Liza Campbell warned that “there is no clarity on the extent to which sectors are reliant on a predictable supply of useable water—each sector will have a different vulnerability relationship.”
Based on the advice from participants it was confirmed that the NRTEE is well positioned to take a leadership role – as a catalyst and convenor – to work with stakeholders to determine a path towards sustainable water use by the Canadian natural resources sectors. A key message pointed towards the need to identify first what science, knowledge, data and information already exists and how that information can be disseminated through the NRTEE’s recommendations. Governance issues also appeared to be a common concern amongst workshop participants.
President and CEO David McLaughlin closed the event by affirming the NRTEE’s desire to continue to focus attention on the issue of water resource sustainability and the sustainability of our natural resource sectors.
Participants
Allen, Paul
Assistant Director, Freshwater, Horizontal, Policy and Science Coordination
Natural Resources Canada
Balpataky, Katherine
Research Associate
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTE)
Boisclair, David
Research Director
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Borland, Bill
Vice President, Canadian Federal Programs AMEC Earth Environmental
Brooks, David
Senior Advisor, Fresh Water
Friends of the Earth Canada
Brubaker, Elizabeth
NRTEE Member; (Executive Director, Environment Probe)
Campbell, Liza
Senior Policy Advisor
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Cantin, Bernard
Director
Policy Research Initiative
Carignan, Serge
Executive Director, I.C.I. Environment
Université du Québec à Montréal
Chamberland, Hubert
Le president du COVABAR
Comité de concertation et de valoristion du bassin de la rivière Richelieu
de Loë, Rob
Professor and University Research Chair in Water Policy and Governance, Department of Environment and Resource Studies
University of Waterloo
Drolet, René
Director of Policy & Research
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Dubé, Robert
NRTEE Member; (Président, ATOUT PERSONNEL)
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Edwards, Denise
Administrative Assistant
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Fortin, Pierre
President
Canadian Hydropower Association
Gagnon, Luc
Senior Advisor, Climate Change, Environment and Sustainable Development Unit
Hydro-Québec
Gardiner, Elizabeth
Vice President, Technical Affairs
The Mining Association of Canada
Hilkene, Christopher
NRTEE Member; (Clean Water Foundation)
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Kelly, Mike
Vice President, Alberta Water Council; Former Director, Water Resources, TransAlta
Kreutzweiser, David
Research Scientist, Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Canadian Forest Service
Natural Resources Canada
Kulshreshtha, Suren
Professor, Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics (PBE)
University of Saskatchewan
Lambert, Gordon
Vice President, Sustainable Development
Suncor Energy Inc.
Marshall, David
Founder and CEO
Fraser Basin Council
Martel, Jean-Pierre
President & CEO
Forest Products Association of Canada
McCuaig, James D.
Program Advisor
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
McLaughlin, David
President and CEO
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Merchant, Jamshed
Assistant Deputy Minister
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration and Environment
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Mitchell, Clyde
Senior Engineer/Project Manager
Triton Environmental Consultants Ltd.
Mitchell, Jon
Lead, Environmental Strategies
EnCana Corporation
Morris, Tim
Programme Officer, Fresh Water Resources Protection
Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation
Munroe, Geoff
Associate ADM and Chief Scientist
Assistant Deputy Minister’s Office
Natural Resources Canada
Noble, David
Consultant
2degreesC
Nowlan, Linda
Consultant
Painchaud, Jean
Service de la gestion intégrée de l’eau
Direction des politiques de l’eau
Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs (MDDEP)
Paradiso, Christina
Policy Advisor
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Pentland, Ralph
Canadian Water Issues Council
Phare, Merrell-Ann
Executive Director and Legal Counsel
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Phillips, Richard
Chairman
Alberta Irrigation Projects Association
Prokopanko, Richard
NRTEE Member; (Director, Corporate Affairs for B.C. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc.)
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Renzetti, Steven
Professor, Department of Economics
Brock University
Sandford, Bob
Chair, Canadian Partnership Initiative United Nations, Water for Life Decade;
Director, Western Watersheds Climate Research Collaborative
Saunders, J. Owen
Executive Director, Canadian Institute of Resources Law
University of Calgary
Servos, Mark
Scientific Director, Canadian Water Network, Canada; Research Chair, Water Quality Protection, Department of Biology
University of Waterloo
Slater, Robert
NRTEE Member; (Adjunct Professor, Environmental Policy, Carleton University)
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Sopuck, Robert
NRTEE Member; (Vice-President of Policy, Delta Waterfowl Foundation)
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
Vescovi, Luc
Chercheur et coordonnateur de programme
Ouranos Inc.
Watt, Shannon
Policy Research Analyst
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Webster, Alain
Vice-rectorat à l’administration et au développement durable
Université de Sherbrooke
Westmacott, Chad
Senior Policy Analyst
Environment Policy Division
Natural Resources Canada
Yap, Robert
Director, Water Resources
Ontario Power Generation
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