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Closing the performance gap

17 May 2007

The members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, the President of the University of Calgary, the Benchers of the Law Society of Alberta, the President of the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, and the Dean of Law at The University of Alberta. [...] In the decision report approving Syncrude’s Aurora Mine in 1997, the EUB stated that: The efficiency of the application process for individual developments could be greatly enhanced by the adoption of a regional development approach that had the support of the various corporate interests in the region and other stakeholders. [...] The early hopes for the linkage of IRM with CEMA and RSDS are captured in a paper written in 2000 by several of the key architects of CEMA from industry, the federal and provincial governments, and an Aboriginal organization.26 The authors’ optimistic assessment was that “the Government of Alberta is undergoing a transformation in the way it does business” as demonstrated by the Commitment Documen [...] The rest of the conceptual outline in the RSDS Document consists of a thumbnail description of the roles and responsibilities of government agencies, an enumeration of key regional issues and themes to be addressed (elaborated on in more detail below), and a brief discussion of proposed timelines, activities and resources for developing responses to these issues. [...] The RSDS Document thus provides the starting point for discharging the Government of Alberta’s responsibilities as the owner and manager of public land and resources in the oil sands region and as the entity with primary responsibility for environmental stewardship.
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Authors

Kennett, Steven A

Pages
84
Published in
Canada

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