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{
"time": "2009-12-09 14:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Linda Duncan (Edmonton\u2014Strathcona, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1767389\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, this past year, the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development was privileged to hear testimony from many leading Canadian scientists on the impact of oil sands operations on water resources. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767390\" data-originallang=\"en\">Federal officials and industry witnesses defended their monitoring programs, including the industry funded RAMP, reporting no evidence of contamination in the Athabasca watershed and asserting that the majority of contaminants were from natural sources and posed no risk to human health or the environment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767391\" data-originallang=\"en\">Testimony by university and independent scientists offered a contrary view and serious concerns with government and industry-led monitoring. A peer review of RAMP showed it lacked scientific oversight, transparency and scientific veracity. We were advised a peer reviewed study was imminent. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767392\" data-originallang=\"en\">This report, now published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> and co-authored by the lead scientist, Dr. David Schindler, provides clear evidence that the oil sands operations are emitting, and have been emitting, levels of contaminants that put the Athabasca River and tributaries at serious risk. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767393\" data-originallang=\"en\">The results pose serious questions about the failed assertion of federal environmental powers today and\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1767389\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, l'an dernier, le Comit\u00e9 permanent de l'environnement et du d\u00e9veloppement durable a eu le privil\u00e8ge d'entendre le t\u00e9moignage de nombreux scientifiques canadiens de premier plan au sujet des r\u00e9percussions de l'exploitation des sables bitumineux sur les ressources hydriques.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767390\" data-originallang=\"en\">Des fonctionnaires f\u00e9d\u00e9raux et des t\u00e9moins de l'industrie ont d\u00e9fendu leurs programmes de surveillance, dont le Programme de surveillance aquatique r\u00e9gionale financ\u00e9 par l'industrie. Ils ont signal\u00e9 qu'il n'y avait aucune preuve de contamination dans le bassin hydrologique de l'Athabasca et soutenu que la majorit\u00e9 des contaminants provenaient de sources naturelles et ne pr\u00e9sentaient aucun risque pour la sant\u00e9 humaine ou l'environnement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767391\" data-originallang=\"en\">Toutefois, les scientifiques universitaires et ind\u00e9pendants appel\u00e9s \u00e0 t\u00e9moigner ont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un point de vue oppos\u00e9 et se sont dits tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9occup\u00e9s par les activit\u00e9s de surveillance men\u00e9es par le gouvernement et l'industrie. Un examen par des pairs du Programme de surveillance aquatique r\u00e9gionale a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 qu'il manquait de supervision et de fondement scientifiques, ainsi que de transparence. On nous a dit qu'une \u00e9tude examin\u00e9e par des pairs \u00e9tait imminente.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce rapport, publi\u00e9 dans la revue <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> et dont un des coauteurs est David Schindler, un scientifique de renom, pr\u00e9sente des preuves pr\u00e9cises selon lesquelles l'exploitation des sables bitumineux \u00e9met depuis un certain temps des contaminants \u00e0 un niveau qui met gravement en p\u00e9ril la rivi\u00e8re Athabasca et ses affluents.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les r\u00e9sultats soul\u00e8vent des questions graves quant \u00e0 l'affirmation erron\u00e9e des instances environnementales f\u00e9d\u00e9rales actuelles et...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/12/9/linda-duncan-1/",
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"source_id": "3010949",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Environment",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/12/9/",
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