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About the Pembina Institute...... i About the Primers ...... 3 Resources...... 5 Contacts in the Northwest Territories...... 12 ❚ Boards, Government Departments and Agencies ...... 12 ❚ Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency...... 12 ❚ Environment ...... 13 ❚ Environmental Impact Review Board (in the ISR) ...... 13 ❚ Environmental Impact Screening Committee (in the ISR)...... 14 ❚ Fisheries and Oceans Canada (formerly DFO)...... 15 ❚ Government of the Northwest Territories...... 15 ❚ Gwich’in Land and Water Board ...... 16 ❚ Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (formerly DIAND) ...... 16 ❚ Inuvialuit Land Administration ...... 17 ❚ Inuvialuit Regional Corporation ...... 17 ❚ Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board...... 18 ❚ Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board ...... 19 ❚ National Energy Board ...... 20 ❚ Northwest Territories Water Board ...... 20 ❚ Sahtu Land and Water Board...... 21 ❚ Industry Groups...... 22 ❚ Environmental Groups in the NWT ...... 24 Contents

ii The Pembina Institute Contacts in the ...... 25 ❚ Federal Government Departments ...... 25

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND) ...... 25

National Energy Board (NEB)...... 25

Northern Pipeline Agency...... 26

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency ...... 26

Other Federal Government Departments...... 27 ❚ YTG Departments ...... 29

Department of Energy, Mines and Resources...... 29

YTG Oil and Gas Management Branch...... 29

YTG Lands Branch...... 29

Oil and Gas Business Development Unit ...... 30

Other YTG Departments...... 30 ❚ Umbrella Final Agreement Organizations and Processes...... 31

Land Use Planning Council ...... 32

Yukon Surface Rights Board...... 33

Other Umbrella Final Agreement Organizations...... 35 ❚ First Nation Governments...... 37

Council of Yukon ...... 37

/ First Nation...... 37

Champagne/Aishihik First Nation...... 37

Resources and Contacts 1 ❚ First Nation Governments...... 37

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Kwanlin Dun First Nation ...... 38

Liard First Nation...... 38

Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation ...... 38

Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation...... 38

Council ...... 38

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Tribal Council ...... 38

Ta'an Kwach'an Council ...... 38

Teslin Council...... 39

Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Hän Nation ...... 39

Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation...... 39

...... 39 ❚ Industry Groups...... 39 ❚ Non-Government Organizations in the Yukon ...... 41

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society...... 41

Yukon Conservation Society...... 41

The Caribou Commons Project...... 41

Gwich’in Steering Committee...... 42

Porcupine Caribou Management Board ...... 42

2 The Pembina Institute About the Primers

The Pembina Institute’s Energy Watch There are four parts to each of these primers: program has developed a series of eight 1. A basic description of the activities of primers to help northern communities under- that phase stand the potential environmental and, where applicable, human health impacts of oil and 2. The potential environmental and human gas development.The primers also aim to help health risks of that phase these communities effectively take part in 3. The best practices available to reduce managing these risks, ensuring that govern- those risks ments and oil and gas developers are using 4. Opportunities for citizens to get involved the best environmental practices available. in deciding how developers carry out Each of the first six primers focuses on a the activity. different phase of oil and gas development. About the Primers

Resources and Contacts 3 The following are the six phases of oil and gas oil and gas from the place it comes out of development addressed by the primers: the ground to the places where consumers Seismic Exploration — industry activities to will use it. create a picture or map of the geology below The last two primers focus specifically on the Earth’s surface to find oil and gas reserves. citizens’ rights around oil and gas development Land Disposition — the actions companies projects: need to take to get the rights to explore for and Citizens’ Rights and Oil and Gas Development: produce oil and gas reserves. Northwest Territories explains the rights that Exploration and Production Drilling — the citizens have related to oil and gas activities companies perform to first locate oil development in the Northwest Territories. and gas, then to find out the size and usability Citizens’ Rights and Oil and Gas Development: of an oil and gas reservoir, and finally to reach Yukon Territory explains the rights that citizens the oil and gas using intensive production have related to oil and gas development in the drilling. Yukon Territory. Well Site Operation — industry practices to To produce these primers, the authors reviewed remove oil and gas from underground the limited oil and gas development already reservoirs and transport them to the surface. under way in Canada’s North.They also Oil and Gas Processing — actions companies researched the current issues and practices in take to process oil and gas to prepare it for sale. , northeast , and the Alaskan North Slope, where intensive oil and Pipeline Construction and Operation — gas development is already occurring. industry activity to set up pipelines that carry

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Alberta Environmental Protection. 1998. The Final Frontier: Protecting Landscape and PRIMER COMPILATION Biological Diversity within Alberta’s Boreal This chapter is simply is a compilation of the Forest Natural Region, Protected Areas Report references cited in the Primers and other #13. : Alberta Environmental resources that were used to write the Primers. Protection. Alberta Environmental Protection. 1998. Exploration Regulation Section 37. ab.ca/bbs/products/STs/st57-1999.pdf Available online at http://www.qp.gov. (accessed March 2004). ab.ca/Documents/REGS/1998_214.CFM (accessed June 23, 2003). Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1999. EUB Statistical Series 2000-60B, Upstream Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 2003. Petroleum Industry Flaring Report for the Statistical Series 2003-60B, Upstream Year Ending December 31, 1999. : Petroleum Industry Flaring and Venting EUB Information Services. Report for Year Ending December 31, 2002. Calgary: EUB Information Services. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1999. Guide 60, Upstream Petroleum Industry Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 2002 Flaring Requirements (July 1999). Statistical Series 2002-60B, Upstream Available online at http://www.eub.gov.ab. Petroleum Industry Flaring and Venting ca/bbs/products/guides/g60.pdf (accessed Report: Industry Report for Year Ending March 2004). December 31, 2001. Calgary: EUB Information Services. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1999. Guide 38, Noise Control Directives, 4th Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 2000. edition. (November 1999). Available online at Resources Information Letter 99-4, Enforcement Process, http://www.eub.gov.ab.ca/bbs/products/gui Generic Enforcement Ladder and Field des/g38.pdf (accessed March 2004). Surveillance Enforcement Ladder (February 24). Calgary: EUB Information Services. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1998. Report 98-G, Pipeline Performance in Alberta Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1999. 1980–1997. (December 1998). Calgary: EUB Statistical Series 57, Field Surveillance April Information Services. 1998/March 1999 Provincial Summaries. Available online at http://www.eub.gov.

Resources and Contacts 5 Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Petroleum and Natural Gas Exploration and Corporate Compliance Group. 1997. Development and the Alberta Special Places Interim Directive ID 97-08, Long Term Inactive 2000 Initiative: Meeting the Challenge. Well Program Requirements. Calgary: EUB Statement of Consensus and Outstanding Information Services. Issues, February 12. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1996. Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Guide 58, Oilfield Waste Management 1993. Options for Reducing Methane and Requirements of the Upstream Petroleum VOC Emissions from Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. (November 1996). Calgary: EUB Operations,Technical and Cost Evaluation, Information Services. December 1993. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1996. Canadian Council of Ministers of the Guide 50, Drilling Waste Management. Alberta Environment. 1995. Environmental Guidelines Energy and Utilities Board. (Currently under for Controlling Emissions of VOCs from Above review - August 2002). Calgary: EUB Ground Storage Tanks. CCME-EPC-87E, Information Services. ISBN 1-895925-17-7, June 1995. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1991. Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Website. Information Letter IL 91-1. Applications for 2001. Background on the Northern Approval of Gas Processing Schemes , and Rockies/Muskwa-Kechika. Available online at AEUB Guide 56,Volume 2; Energy Develop- http://www.cpaws.org/northernrockies/back ment Application Guide and Schedule, gr-ound.html (accessed August 2003.) January. Calgary: EUB Information Services. Chapman, Brad, Lincz, Ron, and Sean Parenteau. Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. 1988. 1999. Review of Newpark’s Wood Waste IL 88-13 Sulphur Recovery Guidelines — Composting Process for Degradation of Gas Processing Operations. Calgary: EUB Hydrocarbon Contaminated Wastes. Calgary: Information Services. Newpark Environmental Services. BP Exploration () Inc. 1998. Environmental Cott, P.A and J.P.Moore. 2003. Reference and Performance on Alaska’s North Slope, February Workshop Manual. In Working Near Water: 1998, 99519-6612. Anchorage: External Affairs Considerations for Fish and Fish Habitat.. Department. Inuvik: Department of Fisheries and Oceans – Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Western Arctic Area, April 2003. Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Cranford, P.J.,Ed. 2001. Scientific Considerations World Wildlife Fund Canada, and the and Research Results Relevant to the Review of Federation of Alberta Naturalists. 1998. the Offshore Waste Treatment Guidelines.

6 The Pembina Institute Scientific Advice from DFO Atlantic Zone to Dyer, S.J., J. P.O’Neill, S. M.Wasel and S. Boutin. DFO Management, Fisheries and 2001. Avoidance of Industrial Development by Oceans Canada. Woodland Caribou. In Wildland Management, Cott, Pete and Peter Moore. 2002. Appendix 3: 65, 531-542. Protocol for temporary winter access water Dyer, Simon. 1999. Movement and Distribution of crossings for oil and gas activities in the Woodland Caribou in Response to Industrial Northwest Territories. In Working Near Water: Development in Northeastern Alberta. Master Considerations for Fish and Fish Habitat. of Science Thesis. Edmonton: University of Inuvik: Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Alberta. Also available online at http://www. Clean Air Strategic Alliance. 2002. Gas deer.rr.ualberta.ca/caribou/SD_MSc.pdf Flaring and Venting in Alberta: Report and Environment Canada. 2001. 1990-2001 GHG Recommendations for the Upstream Petro- Emission Estimates for Canada. On the leum Industry by the Flaring/Venting Project Information on Greenhouse Gas Sources Team. (June 2001). Available online at and Sinks. Website. Available Online at http://casahome.org/uploads/FVPTRptANDR http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/ ecsFinalVersionJUN-21-2002.pdf (accessed canada_2001_e.cfm March 2004). Griffiths, M., and D.Woynillowicz. 2003. Clean Air Strategic Alliance. 2001. Zone Air Oil and Troubled Waters. Drayton Valley: Quality Management Guidelines. Available Pembina Institute, April 2003. online at http://www.casahome.org/ Holford, M. 1998. An Evaluation of Potential uploads/ZoneAQManagementGuidelines.pdf Technologies for Reducing Solution Gas (accessed March 2004). Flaring in Alberta. Paper prepared for Clean Department of Fisheries and Oceans. 2002. Air Strategic Alliance Flaring Project Team. DFO Protocol for Water Withdrawal for Oil Calgary: Faculty of Engineering, University of & Gas Activities in the Northwest Territories. Calgary, February 1998. Yellowknife: Fish Habitat Management- International Union for Conservation of Western Arctic Area (August 1, 2002). Nature and Natural Resources. 1993. Oil Department of Fisheries and Oceans. 2002. and Gas Exploration and Production in Arctic DFO Protocol for Temporary Winter Access and Subarctic Onshore Regions. Guidelines Water Crossings for Oil and Gas Activities in for Environmental Protection E&P Forum. the Northwest Territories.Yellowknife: Fish Presented at the Oil Industry International Habitat Management-Western Arctic Area Exploration and Production Forum. (August 1, 2002).

Resources and Contacts 7 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. 2003. MacCrimmon, Gail and Thomas Marr-Laing. Backgrounder: Deh Cho Process – Interim 2000. Patchwork Policy, Fragmented Forests: Land Withdrawals. (April 17, 2003). Available In-situ development and the online at: www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/j- ecological integrity of Alberta’s northeast a2003/02287bbk_e.html . boreal forest. Drayton Valley: Pembina Johnson, M.R., Zastavniuk, O.,Wilson, D.J., and Institute. L.W. Kostiuk 1999. Efficiency Measurements Marr-Laing,Tom, and Chris Severson-Baker. of Flares in a Cross Flow, Combustion and 1999. Beyond Eco-Terrorism:The Deeper Environment Group, Department of Issues Affecting Alberta’s Oilpatch. Mechanical Engineering. Edmonton: Drayton Valley:The Pembina Institute. University of Alberta. Miller, P.2000. Integrated Landscape Jorgenson, Janet C., and Philip Martin. 1997. Management: Alberta Chamber of Resources. Effects of Winter Seismic Exploration on Presented at the National Environmental Tundra Vegetation and Soil. In NPR-A Law Conference, March 2000, in Calgary, Symposium Proceedings. Anchorage: Alberta. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Miller, F.L and A.Gunn. 1977. Caribou and Katch Kan Enterprises Ltd. 2003. Drilling Rig Muskoxen Response to Turbo Helicopter Zero Spill System. Available online at Harassment on Prince of Wales Island, www.katchkan.com (June 2003) Preliminary Report, Escom No. A!-08. Kokelj, SV, and GeoNorth Ltd. 2002. Drilling Canadian Wildlife Service and Fisheries Mud Sumps in the Mackenzie Delta Region: and Environment Canada Construction, Abandonment and National Research Council of the National Past Performance. Submitted to the Academies. Cumulative Environmental Effects Department of Indian Affairs and Northern of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska’s North Development, Northwest Territories Region, Slope. March 2003. Washington: National April 30th, 2002. Academies Press Ltd. Also available online at Krahn, Peter K. 1998. Enforcement vs.Voluntary http://nap.edu/ Compliance: An Examination of the Strategic National Energy Board. 2003. Pipeline Enforcement Initiatives Implemented by Regulation in Canada: A Guide for Landowners the Pacific and Yukon Regional Office of and the Public, 51-52. Available at www.neb- Environment Canada 1983 to 1998. White- one.gc.ca/safety/PipelineRegulationCanada_ horse: Inspections Division, Environment e.pdf. Canada Pacific and Yukon Region.

8 The Pembina Institute National Energy Board. 2002. Offshore Waste prepared for the Petroleum Technology Treatment Guidelines and Backgrounder, Alliance Canada Conference, May 13. August 30, 2002. Pacific Environmental Services Inc. 1996. National Energy Board. 1999. Water Crossings, Background Report AP-42 Section 5.18, Second Edition, Canadian Pipeline Water Sulfur Recovery. Prepared for U.S. Crossing Committee, November 1999. Environmental Protection Agency, National Energy Board. 1996. Report of the OAQPS/TSD/EIB. Inquiry: Stress Corrosion Cracking on Canadian Petroleum Service Association of Canada. 1998. Oil and Gas Pipelines, MH-2-95. (November Background Information on the Ability of the 1996). Available online at http://www.- Industry to Contribute to Greenhouse Gas neb.gc.ca/safety/index_e.htm (accessed Emission Reductions. In the Oil and Natural March 2004) Gas Industry Foundation Paper. Prepared Nellman, C. and R.D. Cameron. 1998. Cumulative For The National Climate Change Secretariat, impacts of an evolving oil-field complex on the September 1998. distribution of calving caribou. Canadian Petroleum Communication Foundation. 1999. Journal of Zoology, 76, 1425-1430. Our Petroleum Challenge 6th Edition 1999. Northern Pipeline Environmental Impact Centre of Energy. Available online at Assessment and Regulatory Chairs http://www.centreforenergy.com/ Committee. 2002. Cooperation Plan for the documents/254.pdf Environmental Impact Assessment and Rice, Shawn. 1997. On-Shore Geophysical Regulatory Review of a Northern Gas Pipeline (Seismic) Exploration. In NPR-A Symposium Project through the Northwest Territories. (June Proceedings. Anchorage: U.S. Fish and 2002). Available at http://www.ceaa- Wildlife Service. acee.gc.ca/010/0001/0001/0020/coop- Schneider, Richard R. 2002. Alternative Futures: plan_e.pdf Alberta’s Boreal Forest at the Crossroads. Oil and Natural Gas Industry Foundation. 1998. Edmonton: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Background Information on the Ability of the Society. Industry to Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Senate Subcommittee on the Boreal Forest. Emission Reductions. Paper prepared for the 1999. Competing Realities:The Boreal Forest National Climate Change Secretariat. at Risk. (April 14, 2000).Ottawa: Available Pacholek, Paula, and Robert Jenkins.2002. online at www.parl.gc.ca/36/1/parlbus/ Sumps - A Cause for Concern? Department commbus/senate/com-e/rep-e.htm of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Paper

Resources and Contacts 9 Shell Canada. 2001. Progress toward sustain-able US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land development. Shell Canada Limited 2001 Management. 1998. Alpine Satellite Develop- Sustainable Development Report. Available ment Plan Draft Environmental Impact online at: http://www.shell.ca/ code/values Statement. Northeast National Petroleum /reports/sd01.pdf. Reserve – Alaska Integrated Activity Smith,W.T. and R.D. Cameron. 1985. Reactions Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, of Large Groups of Caribou to a Pipeline Record of Decision. Appendix B Stipulations, Corridor on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Record of Decision. Arctic, 38(1): 53-57. US Department of Energy. 1999. Production Strosher, M. 1996. Investigations of Flare Gas Technology Facts. In US DOE Environmental Emissions in Alberta; Report to Environment Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration Canada, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, and Production Technology Report. Available and Canadian Association of Petroleum online at http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/ Producers. Environmental Technologies, oilgas/publications/environmentalbenefits/ Alberta Research Council, November. U.S. Department of Energy. 1998. Comments to TransCanada Pipelines Limited. 2001. Blowdown the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Notification Fact Sheet, February 2001. Department of the Interior on the Northeast Available online at http://www.trans National Petroleum Reserve. Alaska Draft canada.com/pdf/social/Blowdown_factsheet Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental _eng.pdf (accessed March 2004). Impact Statement, March 12, 1998. TransCanada Pipelines Limited. 1999. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1999. Press Release, Preliminary Assessment US EPA Sector Notebook Project, Oil and Indicates SCC Caused NGTL Line Break, Gas Extraction. February 19, 1999. US Environmental Protection Agency. 1999. Truett, J. C. and Johnson, S.R. 2000, The Natural Subpart HH – National Emission Standards History of an Arctic Oil Field: Development and for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Oil the Biota. San Diego: Academic Press. and Natural Gas Production Facilities, June 17, 1999.

10 The Pembina Institute Van Dyke, F.and W.C. Klein. 1996. Response Working Group on Benzene Emissions from of Elk to Installation of Oil Wells. Journal of Glycol Dehydrators.1997. Best Management Mammology. 77(4):1028-1041. Practices for the Control of Benzene Emissions Wills, Jonathan Wills. 2000. A Survey of Offshore from Glycol Dehydrators. Small Explorers and Oilfield Drilling Wastes and Disposal Producers Association of Canada. November Techniques to Reduce the Ecological Impact of 1997. Also available online at Sea Dumping.For Ekologicheskaya Vahkta http://www.sepac.ca/Downloads/ bmp.pdf Sakhalina - Sakhalin Environment Watch Wright, D.G. and Hopky, G.E. 1998. Guidelines for (May 25, 2000). Available online at the Use of Explosives In or Near Canadian http://www.offshore-environment.com/ Fisheries Waters. Canadian Technical Report drillingwastecontents.html (accessed of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2107:iv. October 2002). Wyne, Bob. 2002. Boreal Caribou Research World Resources Institute. 2000. Canada’s Program: Alberta’s Boreal Caribou and Oil Forests at a Crossroads: An Assessment in and Gas Development. Paper presented at the Year 2000: A Global Forest Watch Canada Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s Report. Washington:World Resources Oil and Gas Workshop, May 26, in Institute. Edmonton, Alberta. World Wildlife Federation. 2002. Pamphlet, Yukon Territorial Government. 2002. Yukon Oil A Conservation Vision for the Mackenzie Valley and Gas Disposition Process. Available online natural gas pipeline: Balancing Nature and at www.emr.gov.yk.ca/Oil_and_Gas/ Industrial Development, July 2002. Dispositions/process.htm (June 2002).

Resources and Contacts 11 Contacts in the Northwest Territories

Boards, Government Departments Act, the federal government must ensure that and Agencies environmental assessments are carried out for a range of activities related to oiland gas This chapter briefly describes the role of development.These activities include oil boards, government departments and agencies and gas exploration or production and that have a say in oil and gas activities in the development plans that are regulated under Northwest Territories.We have listed them in the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act. Other alphabetical order, and we have included their activities that may require an environmental addresses, phone numbers, E-mail addresses assessment review include activities regulated and Web sites, wherever possible, to make it under the Canadian Environmental Protection easy for you to contact them. It is important to Act (dumping of waste), the Fisheries Act contact a board or government agency as soon (alteration or destruction of fish or fish habitat), as possible if you have any concerns about a the Navigable Waters Protection Act, the development or questions about the process Northwest Territories Waters Act and several for public involvement. other federal acts. An application for a land use Canadian Environmental permit on Crown land from DIAND may also trigger a review.The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Assessment Agency provides advice and Mr. Lanny Coulson guidance on the application of the Canadian Director, Alberta/NWT Region Environmental Assessment Act and may Suite 100, Revillon Bldg. become directly involved in reviews requiring 10237 - 104 St. comprehensive study or panel reviews. Edmonton, Alberta T5J 1B1 However, the main responsibility for ensuring Tel (780) 422-7704 that the requirements of the Canadian Fax (780) 422-6202 Environmental Assessment Act are met rest with Email: [email protected] other federal departments that have project Web site: www.ceaa.gc.ca decision-making responsibilities that make them “responsible authorities.”The Canadian The Canadian Environmental Assessment Environmental Assessment Agency fulfils its Agency is a federal government agency that administrative responsibilities for the Canadian administers the overall requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act in the NWT Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. through its regional office. Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Contacts in the Northwest Territories

12 The Pembina Institute Information about the Canadian Environmental To report a spill or an environmental Assessment Agency and the Canadian accident in the NWT, call 867-920-8130. Environmental Assessment Act can be found at Environment Canada has the authority, under www.ceaa.gc.ca/013/0001/0002/guide_e.htm. the Canadian Environmental Protection Act,to The Canadian Environmental Assessment grant disposal at sea permits. Before it Agency maintains an electronic database at issues these permits, Environment Canada www.ceaa.gc.ca/050/index_e.cfm containing advertises the application in the Canada information on all assessments that are being Gazette (canadagazette.gc.ca/partI-e.html) carried out under the Canadian Environmental for a 30-day comment period. An advertise- Assessment Act.You can find information about ment names a contact person at the company this public registry at www.ceaa.gc.ca/012- that has applied for the permit and provides /012/Registry_e.pdf.The electronic database instructions on how to comment on the makes it easy to identify all of the assessments proposed permit.You can read more about that are taking place in the NWT at a given disposal at sea permits at www.ec.gc.ca- time or place, or to locatea specific assessment. /seadisposal/main/index_e.htm. Amendments to the Canadian Environmental Environment Canada also manages the Canada Assessment Act that came into force in October Wildlife Act and the Migratory Birds Convention 2003 are described at www.ceaa.gc.ca- Act.You can reach the Canadian Wildlife /013/001/0003/index_e.htm.These changes Service, the division of Environment Canada improve the opportunity for public partici- responsible for administering these Acts, at the pation and formally recognize the value of address above or at 867-669-4760. traditional knowledge in conducting environ- mental assessments.You can find more Environmental Impact Review information at www.ceaa.gc.ca- Board (in the ISR) /013/001/0003/participation_e.htm. Environmental Impact Review Board Environment Canada Joint Secretariat Inuvialuit Renewable Resource Committees Environment Canada 107 Mackenzie Road Environmental Protection Branch Box 2120 Northern Division Inuvik, NT 301 – 5204 50 Avenue X0E 0T0 Yellowknife, NT Tel: 867-777-2828 X1A 1E2 Fax: 867-777-2610 Tel: 867-669-4700 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 867-873-8185 Web site: www.bmmda.nt.ca/downloads.htm

Resources and Contacts 13 The Environmental Impact Review Board (EIRB) You can find the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, reviews oil and gas developments in the ISR if a which is the land claim agreement that applies screening process shows that a development in the ISR, on the Inuvialuit Regional could have a significant negative environ- Corporation Web site at www.irc.inuvialuit.com/ mental impact.We describe this process in the publications.default.asp.The EIRB and EISC chapter called “The Environmental Screening (see below) are planning their own Web site. and Review Process,”in the companion document entitled Citizens’ Rights and Oil and Environmental Impact Screening Gas Development: Northwest Territories.You Committee (in the ISR) can find more details in EIRB Operating Environmental Impact Procedures, available from the EIRB or at: Screening Committee www.bmmda.nt.ca/outgoing/Opproc01.pdf. Box 2120 The EIRB is an independent board, not a Inuvik, NT government agency or an Inuvialuit X0E 0T0 organization. It selects a panel, usually made up Tel: 867-777-2828 of four members, to conduct the public review Fax: 867-777-2610 of a development.Two members are generally E-mail: [email protected] chosen from among members appointed by Web site: www.bmmda.nt.ca/downloads.htm the federal government and two members The Environmental Impact Screening are selected from among members appointed Committee (EISC) screens proposed oil and by the Inuvialuit. However, for the standard gas developments in the ISR.We describe this public review procedure, the EIRB can invite process in the chapter called “The eligible Aboriginal organizations to nominate Environmental Screening and Review Process,” a panel member. If the panel includes in the companion document entitled Citizens’ additional Aboriginal members, the federal Rights and Oil and Gas Development: Northwest government can appoint the same number Territories.You can find more details in of additional members. Members of the public Environmental Impact Screening Committee can view files related to EIRB applications at the Operating Guidelines and Procedures, available Inuvik office above, located in the Inuvialuit at www.bmmda.nt.ca/outgoing/og&p2002.pdf. Corporate Centre. Members of the public can view files related to You can find information about the ISR on the applications at the Inuvik office above.The EISC Web site of the Beaufort-Mackenzie Mineral shares its offices with the EIRB. Development Area at www.bmmda.nt.ca.

14 The Pembina Institute Fisheries and Oceans Canada The Government of the Northwest Territories (formerly DFO) (GNWT) Web site provides an organizational chart and phone directory. One division of the Fisheries and Oceans Canada,Yellowknife GNWT is the Environmental Protection Service, District Office which you can reach at the address above, by Fish Habitat Biologist telephone at 867-873-7654, by fax at 867-873- 101 – 5204 50 Avenue 0221 or on the Web at www.gov.nt.ca/RWED/ Yellowknife, NT eps/index.htm. X1A 1E2 The Government of the Northwest Territories Tel: 867-669-4912 (GNWT) administers territorial laws that parallel Fax: 867-669-4940 or complement federal laws governing Fisheries and Oceans Canada (formerly known as environmental and safety matters, including the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, or DFO) regulations about the reporting and clean-up is responsible for all matters related to rivers, lakes, of spills, fuel storage and fire safety.The GNWT fish habitat and navigable waters.The department does not issue permits. However, it does is also responsible for the Canadian Coast Guard. review applications for resource development. The office for the Arctic is located in Ontario. It checks that the development is in line with Navigation Protection Office Arctic the legislative mandates and policies of the 201 North Front Street, Suite 703 GNWT, and that the development promotes Sarnia, ON the economic and social well-being of N7T 8B1 NWT residents. Tel: 519-383-1863 The GNWT signed the Inuvialuit Final Agree- Fax: 519-383-1989 ment, so it must ensure that a company meets Government of the the requirements of that Agreement before it allows a development to proceed. Northwest Territories The EISC screens the business authorizations Government of the Northwest Territories that the GNWT issues, and the EIRB reviews Director, Resources,Wildlife and Economic them.These business authorizations are not, Development however, governed by the Canadian P.O. Box 1320 Environmental Assessment Act. Yellowknife, NT The GNWT is only directly responsible for X1A 2L9 Commissioner’s lands, which are mainly Tel: 867-920-3214 territorial lands that lie within municipal Fax: 867-873-0254 boundaries. Web site: www.gov.nt.ca/RWED/index.html

Resources and Contacts 15 Gwich’in Land and Water Board hearing in the Inuvik Drum and News North. The hearing is held in a community near the Gwich’in Land and Water Board proposed project.The GLWB is flexible and P.O. Box 2018 informal and, where appropriate, may allow Inuvik, NT evidence that would not normally be allowed X0E 0T0 under the strict rules of evidence. Tel: 867-777-4954 Fax: 867-777-2616 GSA Water Licence and Land Use Permit E-mail: [email protected] Application Process, available on the GLWB Web Web site: www.glwb.com site at www.glwb.com, outlines the application process, but there is no publication that A company needs a land use permit and describes the hearing process. However, once a probably a water licence before it undertakes hearing is announced, you can get more oil and gas exploration or development.The information by contacting the GLWB. Gwich’in Land and Water Board (GLWB) reviews each application for a land use permit and/or Indian and Northern Affairs water licence in its region.The GLWB sends a Canada (formerly DIAND) copy of the application, an information package and an invitation to comment to the Northwest Territories Region affected communities, co-management boards, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada government agencies and interested groups. P.O. Box 1500 The GLWB uses the comments it receives to Yellowknife, NT help it decide what course of action to take X1A 2R3 during the preliminary screening of the Tel: 867-669-2500 application. If the public expresses concerns Fax: 867-669-2709 about the project, the GLWB may conduct its District Manager, North Mackenzie own public hearing or forward the application District to the MVEIRB. If the proposed development P.O. Box 2100 could have significant negative environmental Inuvik, NT impacts, the GLWB will refer the application X0E 0T0 directly to the MVEIRB. Tel: 867-777-3361 At a hearing before either the GLWB or the Fax: 867- 777-2090 MVEIRB, people have the opportunity to District Manager, South Mackenzie District present information, suggestions and concerns 140 Bristol Avenue in a public forum.To announce an upcoming Yellowknife, NT hearing, the GLWB publishes a notice of X1A 3T2

16 The Pembina Institute Tel: 867-669-2760 Tel: 867-977-2202 Fax: 867-669-2720 Fax: 867-977-2467 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (formerly Web site: www.inuvialuit.com/irc (look for known as the Department of Indian Affairs and the link to the Inuvialuit Land Administration Northern Development, or DIAND) has several under “Corporate”) offices in the NWT that deal with land The Inuvialuit Land Administration is administration, the environment and responsible for lands received under the conservation, and contaminants. Inuvialuit Final Agreement.The Inuvialuit DIAND has published several booklets about Final Agreement provides surface and land and oil and gas development, including A subsurface title to the lands adjacent to each Citizen’s Guide to Oil and Gas in the NWT, of the six Inuvialuit communities (called 7(1)(a) Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act: A lands in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement).The Citizen’s Guide, and Your Guide to Who Inuvialuit Final Agreement also gives surface Manages Crown Land in the Northwest (and sand and gravel) rights to a larger area Territories.You can get these booklets from the within the traditional lands (called 7(1)(b) lands DIAND office in your region. in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement).You can find a map of these lands in Appendix B.The Inuvialuit To get information about how rights are issued, Land Administration is not responsible for oil the areas where rights will be issued, and Calls and gas rights on 7(1)(b) lands. for Bids for exploration, contact the Northern Oil and Gas Directorate in Quebec: The Inuvialuit Land Administration reviews and approves applications to access and use 7(1)(a) Northern Oil and Gas Directorate Director and 7(1)(b) lands.The Inuvialuit Land 6th Floor, Room 626 Administration Commission holds public 10 Wellington Street meetings for most applications that relate to Gatineau, QC 7(1)(a) and 7(1)(b) lands. K1A 0H4 Tel: 819-997-0878 Inuvialuit Regional Corporation Fax: 819-953-5828 Inuvialuit Regional Corporation Web site: www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/oil 107 MacKenzie Road Inuvialuit Land Administration Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0 Inuvialuit Land Administration Tel: 867-777-2737 P.O. Box 290 Fax: 867-777-2135 Tuktoyaktuk, NT E-mail: [email protected] X0E 1C0 Web site: www.inuvialuit.com/irc

Resources and Contacts 17 The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation manages application to the MVEIRB.The MVEIRB can the economic, social and cultural affairs of the also conduct an assessment on its own, ISR by implementing the Inuvialuit Final without preliminary screening or a referral Agreement and in other ways.When a from a board or government agency. After company wishes to develop resources on ISR conducting an environmental assessment, 7(1)(a) lands, the Inuvialuit Regional the MVEIRB may recommend that an Corporation must approve the project before environmental impact review should take the company can make a Declaration of place.The MVEIRB will then appoint a review Discovery. A company cannot make plans for panel, which will require the developer to development drilling until it has a Declaration prepare an Environmental Impact Statement. of Discovery. The review panel may also hold a hearing. Mackenzie Valley Environmental The Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Impact Review Board Guidelines provide an overview of the work of the MVEIRB.The 2003 draft is available at Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact http://www.mveirb.nt.ca/MVGuides/ Review Board MVDocs.html Box 938, 200 Scotia Centre (5102 50th Avenue) Anyone who wishes to take part in a MVEIRB Yellowknife, NT hearing should read Rules of Procedure for X1A 2N7 Environmental Assessment and Environmental Tel: 867-766-7050 Impact Review Proceedings, available at Fax: 867-766-7074 www.mveirb.nt.ca/MVGuides/MVProcedure E-mail: [email protected] Rules.pdf. Web site: www.mveirb.nt.ca You can view the MVEIRB’s public registry The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact index, which lists all of the documents relating Review Board (MVEIRB) is not the same as the to current environmental assessments, at the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board MVEIRB’s office or on its Web site at (MVLWB), described below. If the Mackenzie www.mveirb.nt.ca. Some relevant documents Valley Land and Water Board (MVLWB), Gwich’in are also available online. Land and Water Board (GLWB), Sahtu Land and Water Board (SLWB) or a government agency The MVEIRB is working with other government discovers during its preliminary screening of departments and agencies to coordinate an application that a proposed development the review process for pipelines in the NWT. might cause a significant negative impact on See Cooperation Plan for the Environmental the environment or cause public concern, the Impact Assessment and Regulatory Review board or government agency will refer the of a Northern Gas Pipeline Project Through the

18 The Pembina Institute Northwest Territories, June 2002, available at the site of a proposed development, as well as www.ceaaacee.gc.ca/010/9998/nr020107 affected communities and First Nations.In _e.htm. particular, the MVLWB requires First Nations to review applications to assess the potential impact Mackenzie Valley Land on heritage resources and wildlife.The MVLWB and Water Board publishes a notice of all land use permit and water Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board licence applications in the local newspapers.You Box 2130 can also download a list of applications from 4910 50th Avenue, 7th Floor www.mvlwb.com.To find out more, see Mackenzie Yellowknife, NT Valley Land and Water Board’s Consultation X1A 2P6 Process with First Nations on Land and Water Use Tel: 867-669-0506 Applications, Draft, 2000, available at www.mvlwb. Fax: 867-873-6610 com/supportDocs/FirstNationInvolve.pdf. E-mail: [email protected] Members of the public can comment on any Web site: www.mvlwb.com application before the MVLWB.They can raise The Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board concerns that they have regarding the (MVLWB) reviews applications and issues land application, and can ask the MVLWB to hold a use permits and water licences outside the public hearing on a land use permit or Type B settled land claim areas in the Mackenzie Valley. water licence application. Alternatively, The MVLWB also processes transboundary land members of the public can request that an use and water use applications in the application be referred to the MVEIRB for an Mackenzie Valley.To learn more about the environmental assessment. MVLWB’s processes, read Guide to the For some types of land use permit or water Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, 2003, licence, the MVLWB can decide whether a available at www.mvlwb.com/supportDocs/ hearing is justified. In other cases, a hearing Guide%20to%20MVLWB%20Mar%202003.pdf. is required.You can find the Draft Rules of The MVLWB expects companies to consult with Procedure Including Public Hearings, 2000, the public before they submit an application. at www.mvlwb.com/html/MVLWBdoc.html. For more information, see Public Consultation The MVLWB publishes a notice that advertises Guidelines for Development Applications to a public hearing at least 35 days before the the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, hearing.This notice appears in local and 2003, available at www.mvlwb.com/support regional newspapers. It may also be read Docs/PublicConsultationGuildlines.pdf. on radio and television, and circulated in The MVLWB notifies the owner of land that will be other ways necessary to reach everyone the

Resources and Contacts 19 development may affect.The announcement at www.neb-one.gc.ca/safety/Pipeline- gives the date and location of the hearing and RegulationCanada_e.pdf. information about how to make a submission. In the pipeline application process, first the Pay attention to the deadline for filing general project and then the detailed route submissions, which will be at least 10 days must receive approval. Both stages may include before the actual hearing.Written, audio- a public hearing. For more information consult cassette, videotape and telephone submissions in the companion document entitled Citizens’ are all acceptable. Submissions must be Rights and Oil and Gas Development: translated into English. Hearings usually Northwest Territories. take place in a community close to the proposed development. If the MVLWB has The NEB does not have an office or public received no submissions by the deadline, registry in the NWT. However, you can find it may cancel the hearing. public hearing announcements at www.neb- one.gc.ca/hearings/hearingwebcast_e.htm The MVLWB’s guides and policies are available and a public registry of current cases at at www.mvlwb.com/html/MVLWBdoc.html.You www.neb-one.gc.ca/PublicRegistries/ can visit the MVLWB’s public registry and index_e.htm. reading area at the address above. Another helpful publication issued by the National Energy Board NEB is Living and Working Near Pipelines: National Energy Board Landowner Guide, January 2002, available at 444 Seventh Avenue SW www.neb-one.gc.ca/safety/livwork_e.pdf. Calgary, AB Northwest Territories Water Board T2P 0X8 Tel: 1-800-899-1265 or 403-292-3562 Northwest Territories Water Board Attention: Fax: 403-292-5576 Executive Assistant E-mail: [email protected] Goga Cho Building, 2nd Floor Web site: www.neb-one.gc.ca Box 1500 4916 – 47 Street The National Energy Board (NEB) hears appeals Yellowknife, NT under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act X1A 2R3 and conducts hearings under the National Tel: 867-669-2772 Energy Board Act.The NEB plays a major role in Fax: 867-669-2719 approving transboundary pipelines.You can E-mail: [email protected] find a description of the NEB’s processes in Web site: infosource.gc.ca/Info_1/NTW-XA- Pipeline Regulation in Canada: A Guide for e.html Landowners and the Public, 2003, available

20 The Pembina Institute The Northwest Territories Water Board When a company applies for a land use permit, (NWTWB) is an independent board that it must provide the names of people it has issues water licences.The NWTWB must consulted and describe any actions taken as a approve the use of all water in the ISR, except result of these consultations.When the SLWB where the amounts are below the thresholds receives an application, it sends it to affected in the Northwest Territories Waters Regulations. communities and designated Sahtu The NWTWB also regulates the disposal of any organizations and asks for comment.The SLWB waterborne waste. does not make a public announcement about When the NWTWB holds a hearing, it applications for land use permits. announces the details in local newspapers. When a company applies for a water licence, Members of the public must submit written the SLWB places an advertisement in a regional comments, called “interventions,”at least 10 newspaper and encourages members of the days before the start of the hearing. Others public to comment or make recommendations. may speak about their concerns at the hearing, The SLWB uses the comments it receives to but will not receive a copy of the draft water help it decide on a course of action at the licence for comment.The Board’s Rules for preliminary screening of the application.The Procedure explains how to file an intervention SLWB may call a public hearing, if it considers and describes the public hearing process.There further public consultation and input is a public registry at the NWTWB’s office. necessary. A public hearing is required for a Type A (large-scale) water licence application, Sahtu Land and Water Board but is optional for a Type B water licence.The Sahtu Land and Water Board SLWB conducts public hearings according to P. O. B ox 1 specific rules set out in Sahtu Land and Water Fort Good Hope, NT Board Draft Rules for Public Hearings, available X0E 0H0 from the SLWB’s office. Tel: 867-598-2413 If you wish to comment at a public hearing, Fax: 867-598-2325 you must submit a request at least 10 days E-mail: [email protected] before the date of the hearing. Note that if Web site: www.slwb.com there are special circumstances, the SLWB Oil and gas activities in the Sahtu jurisdiction chairperson can waive (set aside) the 10-day usually require a land use permit, and perhaps notice requirement.Written, audiocassette a water licence, from the Sahtu Land and Water and videotape submissions are all acceptable. Board (SLWB). Your request must contain the following information:

21 Resources and Contacts • your name, address, telephone and/or fax Industry Groups number; Canadian Association of • whether you will be represented by counsel Geophysical Contractors or an agent, and, if so, that person’s name 1045, 1015 – 4th Street SW address, telephone and/or fax number; and Calgary, AB • a brief statement explaining your interest in T2R 1J4 the hearing. Tel: 403-265-0045 You must show that your participation in the Fax: 403-265-0025 hearing will provide relevant evidence, cultural E-mail: [email protected] awareness or cross-examination.The SLWB Web site: www.cagc.ca decides who can participate in a hearing.The The Canadian Association of Geophysical SLWB may require people with similar interests Contractors represents the companies that to make a joint presentation to the Board. undertake seismic exploration.You can find If the SLWB has no concerns, it sends its report the Seismic Information Pamphlet on the to the MVEIRB.The MVEIRB decides if the Association’s Web site. Operators give this screening is complete or if an environmental pamphlet to the owners of land where they assessment is required. If the SLWB believes are conducting seismic exploration.The that the proposed project may have significant Association’s Web site also contains information negative environmental impacts or cause about the best practices for specific activities. public concern, it refers the application to the Canadian Association MVEIRB and requests an environmental of Petroleum Landmen assessment. 350, 500 – 5 Avenue SW Consult with the SLWB to find out the exact Calgary, AB process for a specific application.Whether the T2P 3L5 SLWB or the MVEIRB holds a hearing depends Tel: 403-237-6635 partly on whether the application is for a land Fax: 403-263-1620 use permit or a water licence. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.landman.ca You can find more information about the SLWB, including the SLWB Water License Process and Oil and gas companies hire professional land the SLWB Land Use Permit Process, agents, or landmen, to deal with surface at www.slwb.com. landowners and land administration. Landmen are involved in negotiations with landowners from the initial request to explore land to the

22 The Pembina Institute time when a well or pipeline is abandoned and The Canadian Centre for Energy Information reclaimed.The Canadian Association of aims to be the primary source for energy Petroleum Landmen can provide you with information in Canada.The Centre is more information about landmen. responsible for the former Petroleum Canadian Association of Communication Foundation, which Petroleum Producers provides background information about 2100, 350 – 7 Avenue SW industry practices.You can find the following Calgary, AB publications at www.pcf.ca/bookstore/ T2P 3N9 default.asp#general: Tel: 403-267-1100 • Our Petroleum Challenge: Exploring Canada’s Fax: 403-261-4622 Oil and Gas Industry Web site: www.capp.ca • Flaring: Questions and Answers The Canadian Association of Petroleum • Sour Gas: Questions and Answers Producers (CAPP) is an industry group • Canada’s Pipelines representing about 140 companies involved in the exploration, development and production Canadian Energy Pipeline Association of crude oil and natural gas in Canada. CAPP 1650, 801 – 6th Avenue SW member companies account for about 97% of Calgary, AB the nation’s total production of petroleum. T2P 3W2 Tel: 403-221-8777 The CAPP Web site provides background Fax: 403-221-8760 information on the industry and links to other E-mail: [email protected] Web sites. Web site: www.cepa.com/index.html Canadian Centre for Energy Information The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association 201, 322 – 11 Avenue SW represents Canada’s transmission pipeline Calgary, AB companies. Pipelines transport oil and gas T2R 0C5 from producing regions to markets through- Tel: 1-877-606-4636 or 403-263-7722 out Canada and the United States.The Fax: 403-237-6286 Canadian Energy Pipeline Association states E-mail: [email protected] that its priorities include pipeline safety and Web site: www.centreforenergy.com/silos/ET- integrity, environmental stewardship, CanEn01.asp Aboriginal relations and landowner relations.

Resources and Contacts 23 Environmental Groups Canadian Parks and Wilderness in the NWT Committee, NWT Chapter 4th Floor, 4921 – 49th Street Canadian Arctic Research Committee P.O. Box 1934 Yellowknife Office Yellowknife, NWT 3rd Floor, Mackay Building X1A 2P4 4910 - 50th Street Tel: 867-873-9893 Box 1705, Fax: 867-873-9593 Yellowknife NWT E-mail: [email protected] X1A 2P3 Web site: www.cpaws.org/grassroots- Tel: 867-873-4715 chapters/nwt.html Fax: 867-920-2685 Greg Yeoman, Conservation Director Director of Research Ecology North Kevin O'Reilly E-mail: [email protected] Ecology North 5013- 51th Street Ottawa Office Yellowknife, NT 1276 Wellington Street X1A 1S5 2nd Floor Tel: 867-873-6019 Ottawa, Ontario Fax: 867- 873-9195 K1Y 3A7 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 613-759-4284 Ecology North is an affiliate of the Fax: 613-759-4581 Canadian Nature Federation. Toll Free: (866) 949-9006 WWF Canada Executive Director 245 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 410 Karen Wristen , ON E-mail: [email protected] M4P 3J1 Phone: 1-800-26-PANDA In the Toronto area: 416-489-8800 Fax: 416-489-8055 E-mail: [email protected] Peter Ewins, Director: Arctic Conservation Bill Carpenter, NWT Regional Conservation Director

24 The Pembina Institute Contacts in the Yukon

Federal Government Departments CONTACT INFORMATION Under the Yukon’s new oil and gas regime, many of the responsibilities of the federal This chapter provides descriptions and government are now under territorial contact information for federal and territorial jurisdiction. However, the federal government government departments,Umbrella Final still plays an important role because it owns Agreement organizations,and non- most of the land in the Yukon. government organizations that are involved in oil and gas development in the Yukon. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND) Yukon Regional Office, DIAND 300 – 300 Main Street Tel: 403-292-4800 or 1-800-899-1265 Whitehorse,Yukon Fax: 403-292-5503 Y1A 2B5 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 867-667-3838 Web site: www.neb.gc.ca Fax: 867-667-3801 The NEB is an independent federal agency E-mail: [email protected]

that regulates several aspects of Canada’s Contacts in the Yukon Web site: www.ainc-inac.gc.ca energy industry.The NEB’s purpose is to The Yukon Regional Office of DIAND supports promote safety, environmental protection, political and economic development in the and economic efficiency in the Canadian North by managing federal interests in the public interest. It must also respect the rights Yukon and promoting the sustainable of individuals in the regulation of pipelines, development of northern communities and energy development, and trade, within the natural resources. mandate set by Parliament. For more infor- National Energy Board (NEB) mation on how the NEB operates and its role in pipeline approval and regulation, see the National Energy Board section called “Cross-boundary Projects,”in the General Inquiries companion document entitled Citizens’ Rights 444 Seventh Avenue SW and Oil and Gas Development: Northwest Calgary, Alberta Territories.The NEB’s head office is in Alberta. T2P 0X8

Resources and Contacts 25 Northern Pipeline Agency has taken on many regulatory powers related Northern Pipeline Agency to the pipeline project from other federal Policy Officer departments and agencies. It has not taken on Lester B. Pearson Building powers reserved exclusively for the NEB or 125 Sussex Drive shared between the NEB and the Agency. Ottawa, Ontario Canadian Environmental Assessment K1A 0G2 Agency Tel: 613-944-0564 Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Office of the Commissioner Pacific and Northern Office Tel: 613-944-5000 757 West Hastings Street, Suite 320 The Northern Pipeline Act, proclaimed in April Vancouver, British Columbia 1978, created the Northern Pipeline Agency to V6C 1A1 oversee the planning and construction of the Tel: 604-666-6989 Canadian portion of the Gas Fax: 604-666-6990 Pipeline Project by the Foothills Group of E-mail: [email protected] Companies. If this project chooses another Web site: www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca route, the Northern Pipeline Agency’s The Canadian Environmental Assessment responsibilities for approval and regulation Agency (CEAA) is an independent agency will return to the NEB. that reports directly to the federal Minister of The Northern Pipeline Agency has two the Environment. The Canadian Environmental mandates. It must regulate the Alaska Highway Assessment Act requires an environmental Gas Pipeline Project and streamline and assessment of projects that the federal expedite (speed up the progress of) the government funds or licenses, including approval process. It must also ensure that the pipelines that the NEB authorizes.You can pipeline system gives Canadians the maximum find information about the Canadian economic and industrial benefit with the least Environmental Assessment Act at www.ceaa- amount of social and environmental disruption, acee.gc.ca/013/act_e.htm.The role of the particularly to aboriginal communities. Yukon’s Development Assessment Process in pipeline approvals (see the section called The Northern Pipeline Agency acts as a single “Development Assessment Process,”in the window between federal authorities and the companion document entitled Citizens’ Rights Foothills Group of Companies, and between and Oil and Gas Development Yukon Territory) provincial and territorial governments and the must still be determined, based on pipeline Government of the United States.The Agency routes and other specifics.

26 The Pembina Institute The Comprehensive Study List Regulation After the Yukon Environmental and Socio- (Part IV, section 5) requires the CEAA to assess economic Assessment Act and the the construction of an oil and gas pipeline Development Assessment Process are in place, that is more than 75 kilometres long on a the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act will new right of way (and falls under NEB have a limited role in assessing projects in the jurisdiction).The Inclusion List Regulation Yukon.There may be some exceptions. For (Oil and Gas Projects, section 2) requires the more information about how the Canadian CEAA to review physical activities that relate to Environmental Assessment Act works within the the abandonment of the operation of a regulatory process in the Yukon, see the pipeline that requires permission under section chapter called “Permits and Licences for Oil and 74(1)(d) of the National Energy Board Act. Gas Activities,”in the companion document There is an opportunity for public input into the entitled Citizens’ Rights and Oil and Gas review process and for participation if Development Yukon Territory. the CEAA decides to hold a hearing (Canadian Other Federal Government Departments Environmental Assessment Act, sections 21, 22). The following departments also have After the CEAA prepares a comprehensive responsibilities that may indirectly relate to oil report on the proposed development, it and gas development. If you have specific publishes a public notice saying when and concerns about oil and gas activities that fall where the report is available and stating the under a department’s mandate, contact the deadline by which it must receive comments on department directly to find out your best the report’s conclusions and course of action. recommendations.The Minister can then refer the project back to the responsible authority Natural Resources Canada (the NEB, in the case of pipelines) for action Natural Resources Canada (Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, section Earth Science Office 37), or refer the project to a mediator or review 225 – 300 Main Street panel (Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Whitehorse,Yukon section 29). A review panel means a hearing, Fax: 867-393-6709 with an opportunity for public input (Canadian Web site: www.nrcan.gc.ca Environmental Assessment Act, section 34). If Natural Resources Canada promotes sustainable you are making a presentation to a hearing, and responsible use of mineral, energy, and forest remember that the assessment can take into resources. It also collects information about Cana- consideration the cumulative (combined) dian land, promotes knowledge and information environmental impacts from more activities about sustainable resource development, and than just the one project seeking approval. regulates legal surveys on federal lands, including

Resources and Contacts 27 land claim lands. Natural Resources Canada does Fisheries and Oceans Canada (formerly the not have a main office in the Yukon. However, its Department of Fisheries and Oceans, or DFO) Earth Science Office is located in Whitehorse. administers policies and programs that support Environment Canada Canada’s economic, ecological, and scientific interests in oceans and freshwater fish habitat Environment Canada and promote the conservation and Canadian Wildlife Service sustainability of Canada’s fishery resources. DFO 91782 Alaska Highway has an office in Whitehorse. Whitehorse,Yukon Y1A 5B7 Foreign Affairs and International Trade Tel: 867-393-6700 Enquiries Service (SXCI) Fax: 867-667-7962 Department of Foreign Affairs and E-mail: [email protected] International Trade Web site: www.ec.gc.ca 125 Sussex Drive Environment Canada works to preserve and Ottawa, Ontario enhance the natural environment, including K1A 0G2 migratory birds and other non-domestic plants Tel: 1-800-267-8376 (toll free in Canada) and animals.The department protects water or 613-944-4000 (in the National Capital resources, monitors water quality, administers Region and outside Canada) and enforces environmental legislation, is Tel TTY: 613-944-9136 concerned with domestic and international Fax: 613-996-9709 pollution and bio-diversity, and coordinates Web site: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca federal environmental programs and policies.The Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canadian Wildlife Service is part of Environment develops policies relating to Canada’s Canada, and has an office in Whitehorse. international role, manages Canada’s bilateral Fisheries and Oceans Canada relations with other Arctic regions, and is responsible for the Northern Pipeline Agency 100 – 419 Range Road (described above). Foreign Affairs and Whitehorse,Yukon International Trade does not have a main office Y1A 3V1 in the Yukon. For more information, visit the Tel: 867-393-6722 department’s Web site. Fax: 867-393-6738 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

28 The Pembina Institute YTG Departments Box 2703 Whitehorse,Yukon Department of Energy, Mines and Resources YIA 2C6 Energy, Mines and Resources Tel: 867-667-3427 or (toll free in Yukon) Government of Yukon 1-800-661-0408, extension 3427 Box 2703 Fax: 867-393-6262 Whitehorse,Yukon E-mail: [email protected] Y1A 2C6 Web site: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/Oil_and_Gas Tel: 867-667-3130 or (toll free in Yukon) This branch of the Department of Energy, 1-800-661-0408, extension 3130 Mines and Resources manages territorial oil Tel TTY: 867-393-7460 and gas resources. It provides companies Fax: 867-667-8601 and the public with information, including Web site: www.emr.gov.yk.ca publications about the Yukon’s oil and gas The Department of Energy, Mines and regime, technical reports and resource data Resources is the main YTG department involved (for example, petroleum resource assessments), with oil and gas development.The Minister of and general oil and gas library material.The Energy, Mines and Resources makes all final YTG Oil and Gas Management Branch also decisions related to oil and gas development in identifies “Call for Nomination”areas and the Yukon.The primary mandate of the depart- conducts disposition processes. ment of Energy, Mines and Resources is to YTG Lands Branch create a strong, diversified Yukon economy, while also ensuring the sustainable develop- YTG Lands Branch ment of Yukon resources. Oil and gas develop- Department of Energy, Mines and Resources ment has become one of its major focuses. Elijah Smith Building As a result, the department created two 300 Main Street, Suite 320 branches to deal specifically with oil and gas Box 2703 initiatives: the YTG Oil and Gas Management Whitehorse,Yukon Branch and the YTG Lands Branch. Y1A 2C6 Tel: 867-667-5215 or (toll free in Yukon) YTG Oil and Gas Management Branch 1-800-661-0408, extension 5215 YTG Oil and Gas Management Branch Fax: 867-667-3214 Department of Energy, Mines and Resources E-mail: [email protected] 212 Main Street, Suite 209 Web site: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands

Resources and Contacts 29 On April 1, 2003 the YTG took over land-related Oil and Gas Business Development Unit responsibilities that DIAND used to administer. Oil and Gas Business Development Unit Three jurisdictions now administer land in the 212 Main Street, Suite 200 Yukon: P.O. Box 2703 • the YTG controls most vacant lands in the Whitehorse,Yukon Yukon; YIA 2C6 • Yukon First Nations control their settlement Tel: 867-393-7042 or (toll free in Yukon) 1-800- lands; and 661-0408, extension 7042 Fax: 867-393-7046 • municipalities administer lands, community E-mail: [email protected] plans, and zoning by-laws within their Web site: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/Oil_and_Gas jurisdictions;Whitehorse and Dawson City also control subdivision within their boundaries. The Oil and Gas Business Development Unit promotes and facilitates the responsible Contact the YTG Lands Branch for information development of Yukon’s oil and gas resources on the following: and pipeline activities.The Unit helps with • residential, recreational, commercial, and training and employment opportunities, industrial lot sales; participates in trade shows and events, works • land applications for commercial,industrial, with industry on subjects such as benefits rural residential, and trapping leases, agreements, coordinates research and waterlots, quarries, and enlargement of conducts education campaigns, and advances existing properties; the development of the Alaska Highway Gas • information about finalizing your land Pipeline Project. application; Other YTG Departments • land use permits for a variety of uses, Several other YTG departments have respons- including site clearing or earth work, ibilities that relate indirectly to oil and gas constructing a new road, trail, or access, development. If you have specific concerns clearing or installing a utility right of way, that relate to the mandates of one of these conducting geo-technical or hydrological departments, contact the department directly studies, and temporarily using or occupying to find out if it can help you. For example, if you Commissioner’s land; and are concerned about how oil and gas devel- • quarry permits for sand, gravel, and topsoil. opment may affect a historic site, consider contacting the Department of Business,Tourism and Culture.

30 The Pembina Institute Department of Environment The Department of Highways and Public Department of Environment Works is responsible for ensuring that public Government of Yukon highways, airstrips, buildings, and information 10 Burns Road systems are safe and efficient. Box 2703 Department of Tourism and Culture Whitehorse,Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture Y1A 2C6 Government of Yukon Tel: 867-667-5652 or (toll free in Yukon) Box 2703 1-800-661-0408, extension 5652 Whitehorse,Yukon Fax: 867-393-6213 Y1A 2C6 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 867-667-5036 or (toll free in Yukon) Web site: www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca 1-800-661-0408, extension 5036 The Department of Environment oversees the Fax: 867-667-3546 management and use of Yukon’s renewable Web site: www.btc.gov.yk.ca resources and environment. It manages The Department of Business,Tourism and conserves fish and wildlife species, and Culture focuses on business, tourism, administers and enforces the Wildlife Act cultural industries, and technology/telecomm- and the Environment Act, manages territorial unications to develop and promote economic protected areas, parks, campgrounds, special capacity and entrepreneurial skills for a vibrant management areas (in coordination with First Yukon economy.The department works with Nations), and Heritage Rivers, and administers the Yukon’s diverse arts communities to and promotes agriculture. encourage creativity and quality of life, and Department of Highways and Public Works with heritage interests to preserve and Department of Highways and Public Works interpret the Yukon’s heritage resources. Government of Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement Box 2703 Whitehorse,Yukon Organizations and Processes Y1A 2C6 The Umbrella Final Agreement has chapters Tel: 867-393-7193 or (toll free in Yukon) that address specific areas of resource 1-800-661-0408, extension 7193 management: special management areas, Fax: 867-393-6218 fish and wildlife, heritage, water management, E-mail: [email protected] forest resources, non-renewable resources, Web site: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca and economic development measures.

Resources and Contacts 31 These chapters establish management • land use planning policies, goals, and processes and protect the interests of Yukon priorities in the Yukon; First Nations in these areas.The following • planning region boundaries and priorities sections describe processes and organizations (the Council determines the boundaries that the Umbrella Final Agreement created. of nine proposed or existing regions in the Land Use Planning Council Yukon jointly with the affected communities and First Nations); and Land Use Planning Council 201 – 307 Jarvis Street • general terms of reference for regional land Whitehorse,Yukon use planning commissions. Y1A 2H3 The Land Use Planning Council also administers Tel: 867-667-7397 a $7.4-million budget for land use planning by Fax: 867-667-4624 the regional land use planning commissions. E-mail: [email protected] Regional Land Use Planning Commissions Web site: www.planyukon.ca Regional land use planning commissions have The three parties to the land claim agreement – six or nine members, depending on the size of the YTG, Government of Canada, and Yukon the planning region and the number of land First Nations – established a central Land claims. First Nations with interests in the region Use Planning Council to implement land use nominate one-third of the commission plans in the Yukon. A land use plan is a tool members; the YTG nominates another one- that communities and decision-makers use third; and both or either First Nations and/or to define how land in a specific area will be the YTG, depending on the demographics of used.The land use plan may establish terms the region, nominate the final one-third. and conditions for land use and outline adm- instrative processes that allow the plan to be The primary role of the regional land use followed. Chapter 11 of the Umbrella Final planning commissions is to prepare and Agreement outlines how land use planning recommend a regional land use plan for will happen in the Yukon. the YTG and First Nations to implement. The regional land use plan should take into The Land Use Planning Council is an account traditional knowledge, sustainability, independent board with three members: one existing management regimes, public parti- from the YTG, one from the Government of cpation, and potential land use conflicts. Canada, and one from the Council of Yukon First Nations.The Land Use Planning Council Land Use Planning Process makes recommendations to relevant The Umbrella Final Agreement specifies certain governments about three issues: steps that each region should follow for land

32 The Pembina Institute use planning so that there is a common land Getting involved in the land use planning use planning process across the Yukon. Some process is an effective way to make sure that steps are not explicitly stated in the Umbrella your concerns about oil and gas development Final Agreement, but must occur because of become part of the overall vision for a region. other requirements in the Agreement. Several Yukon Surface Rights Board steps allow the public to have input into a land use plan: Yukon Surface Rights Board 206 – 100 Main Street • Issue identification:The first main stage of Box 31201 the planning process is to identify issues Whitehorse,Yukon within the planning region.The regional land Y1A 5P7 use planning commission looks for a wide Tel: 867-667-7695 variety of opinions from the community Fax: 867-668-5892 and from individuals who are already E-mail: [email protected] involved in local land management.The commission usually holds community The Yukon Surface Rights Board is an indepe- meetings or discusses issues with community ndent organization that has a mandate to members one on one. resolve access disputes and related matters between surface and subsurface rights holders • Information gathering: After the commission in the Yukon. Chapter 8 of the Umbrella Final identifies major issues, it focuses its research Agreement created the Board, and the federal on priority areas.The commission considers Yukon Surface Rights Board Act, c.43, established information resources such as technical it in 1992. sources, land management agencies, and the general public. It usually uses community Landowners who have concerns about an workshops to gather information. activity on their land can make an application • Plan scenario development:The commission, to the Yukon Surface Rights Board. Contact the in consultation with the public, interest Board directly for information about how to groups, and government, develops plan make an application.The Board screens appli- options. It presents these options to the cations to decide if they fall under the Board’s parties and the public for comment. jurisdiction. It deals with most conflicts through Eventually, this results in a draft land use plan. mediation. It only holds full hearings to deal with very difficult or complicated matters. • Plan review:The commission releases the draft land use plan to the public for review. It The Board may consider the following factors incorporates the comments it receives into when it determines compensation for access the final land use plan. to, use of, or expropriation of settlement land:

Resources and Contacts 33 • the worth of the land and any improvements and time) by which any party must file a notice on it; of response, and the address to which a party • any loss of use, loss of opportunity, or must send a notice of response. interference with the use of settlement land; The Board chairperson establishes a panel of • the effect on fish and wildlife harvesting Board members to preside over the hearing. within settlement land; This panel has all of the powers of the Board. • the effect on fish and wildlife and their Any member of the public who would like to habitat within settlement land; make a presentation to the panel must receive permission from the Board. He or she must file • the effect on other settlement land; a notice of response with the Board’s head • any damage to settlement land; office at least seven days before the hearing. • any nuisance, inconvenience, and noise; The Board provides copies of all filed notices • any cultural or special value of the land to of response to each party involved in the the affected First Nation; and hearing. A notice of response must include the following information: • the cost associated with implementing any order the Board makes. • the person’s complete name or organization name, and all contact information; Yukon Surface Rights Board Hearings • a clear statement of their interest in the If the Yukon Surface Rights Board holds a matter; hearing, it follows the following process.You can find more detailed information about • a clear statement of their position; hearing requirements under the Yukon Surface • whether or not they will appear at the Rights Board Act on the Board’s Web site at hearing; and www.surfacerightsboard.com. • a copy of all information and supporting If an application for a hearing is successful, the documents to help explain their Board must provide notice of the hearing to presentation. involved parties by registered mail and post a Section 38(a) of the Yukon Surface Rights public notice that announces the hearing at Board Act states,“The Board shall keep a public least 21 days before the hearing date.The record of all applications made to the Board hearing usually takes place in the community and orders and other decisions made by the closest to the land under dispute and is open Board in respect of applications.”You can find a to the public.The notice must include the time, list of the Board’s public records at all Yukon date, and location of the hearing, the legal public libraries.You can get copies of these files authority for the hearing, the deadline (date from the Board’s Whitehorse office.

34 The Pembina Institute Other Umbrella Final Agreement UMBRELLA FINAL Organizations AGREEMENT The Umbrella Final Agreement created the following organizations. In most cases, they Refer to the Umbrella Final Agreement for have the right to be recognized as “an more detailed explanations of the specific interested party”in the proceedings of any powers and responsibilities of each of these agency, board, or committee dealing with organizations.You should be able to find a matters – including oil and gas development – copy of the Umbrella Final Agreement in most that affect their specific mandates. Renewable Resource Council offices,First Renewable Resource Councils Nation government offices,and libraries. A Renewable Resource Council is established when a First Nation finalizes its individual land Other First Nations are in the final stages claim.These Councils are the primary of their land claim negotiations, so more instruments for local renewable resource Councils will probably be established in the management, including forestry, fish and wildlife, next few years. within the First Nation’s traditional territory. At Each Council has six local representatives.The the time of writing, there were seven established First Nation appoints three members, and the Renewable Resource Councils in the Yukon: YTG appoints three members.The Council • Alsek Renewable Resource Council can make recommendations to government (Champagne-Aishihik First Nation) ministers, affected First Nations, or the Yukon • Mayo Renewable Resource Council (Nacho Fish and Wildlife Management Board.These Ny’ak Dun) recommendations may address issues affecting fish, wildlife, and their habitats within the First • Teslin Renewable Resource Council (Teslin Nation’s traditional territory. Tlingit Council) The Councils are public organizations that are • North Yukon Renewable Resource Council there to listen to comments and concerns from (Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation) the local community. If you have any specific • Carmacks Renewable Resource Council (Little concerns related to oil and gas development, Salmon Carmacks First Nation) bring them to the attention of your local • Selkirk Renewable Resource Council (Selkirk Renewable Resource Council by writing a First Nation) letter to the Council, telephoning the Council • Dawson Renewable Resource Council secretariat, or attending a Council meeting. (Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation)

Resources and Contacts 35 Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board The Yukon Salmon Committee is a Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board subcommittee of the Yukon Fish and Wildlife 106 Main Street, 2nd floor Management Board, but functions Whitehorse,Yukon independently.The Committee is the main Y1A 2A8 instrument of salmon management in the Tel: 867-667-3754 Yukon and focuses on the conservation of Fax: 867-393-6947 territorial salmon stocks.The Committee E-mail: [email protected] works closely with the DFO, the Yukon Fish Web site: www.yfwmb.yk.ca and Wildlife Management Board,Yukon First Nations, Renewable Resource Councils, and Chapter 16 of the Umbrella Final Agreement the public. If you have any concerns about the established the Yukon Fish and Wildlife effects of oil and gas development on Yukon Management Board.The Board has 12 members. salmon stocks, contact the Committee directly. Yukon First Nations appoint six members, and the YTG appoints six members.The Board Yukon Territory Water Board focuses on policy and legislation development Yukon Territory Water Board related to fish, wildlife, and their habitats. It also 419 Range Road, Suite 106 addresses Yukon-wide management issues Whitehorse,Yukon and oversees all management strategies in the Y1A 3V1 14 traditional territories. Part of the Board’s job Tel: 867-667-3980 includes reviewing applications for oil and gas Fax: 867-668-3628 activities.The Board welcomes public input. Chapter 14 of the Umbrella Final Agreement If you would like to voice your concerns about outlines the role of the Yukon Territory Water any aspect of oil and gas development, contact Board.The Board’s regulatory powers come the Board directly. from the federal Yukon Waters Act.The Board Yukon Salmon Committee manages and protects the Yukon’s surface and Yukon Salmon Committee subsurface water resources and issues water 100 – 419 Range Road licences. It may hold public hearings as part of Whitehorse,Yukon its review of a water licence application. DIAND Y1A 3V1 enforces the terms and conditions of water Tel: 867-393-6725 licences. If you have any concerns about the Fax: 867-393-6738 potential impacts of oil and gas development E-mail: [email protected] on water reserves, contact the Yukon Territory Web site: www.yukonsalmoncommittee.ca Water Board directly.

36 The Pembina Institute First Nation Governments First Nations without final agreements: • Kwanlin Dun First Nation There are 14 First Nations in the Yukon. Every • Liard First Nation First Nation is organized differently, but all of • Ross River Dena Council them have a common basic structure. Each First Nation has a central council, headed by The following information will help you a Chief.The Council of Yukon First Nations contact First Nation governments. represents and maintains unity for all First Council of Yukon First Nations Nations in the Yukon. However, individual 11 Nisutlin Drive First Nation governments provide services Whitehorse,Yukon and programs to their people. Y1A 3S4 When a First Nation reaches a final agreement Tel: 867-667-7631 or 867-393-9200 with the YTG and the federal government, it Fax: 867-668-6577 receives specific powers. Each “settled”First E-mail: [email protected] Nation (a First Nation that has reached a final Web site: www.cyfn.ca agreement) has a Lands and Resources Office Carcross/Tagish First Nation that oversees developments on and off Box 130 settlement lands. Some also have an economic Carcross,Yukon development unit or corporation that Y0B 1B0 participates in oil and gas development. Tel: 867-821-4251 First Nations with final agreements: Fax: 867-821-4802 E-mail: [email protected] • Carcross/Tagish First Nation • Champagne/Aishihik First Nation Champagne/Aishihik First Nation • Kluane First Nation 100 – 304 Jarvis Street • Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation Whitehorse,Yukon • Na-cho Nyak Dun First Nation Y1A 2H2 Tel: 867-668-3627 • Selkirk First Nation Fax: 867-667-6202 • Ta'an Kwach'an Council E-mail: [email protected] • • Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Hän Nation Kaska Tribal Council • Vuntut Gwichin First Nation Box 530 Watson Lake,Yukon • White River First Nation Y0A 1C0 Tel: 867-536-2805 E-mail: [email protected] Resources and Contacts 37 Kluane First Nation Northern Tutchone Council Box 20 Box 61 Burwash Landing,Yukon Pelly Crossing,Yukon Y0B 1V0 Y0B 1P0 Tel: 867-841-4274 Tel: 867-537-3821 Fax: 867-841-5900 Ross River Dena Council E-mail: [email protected] General Delivery Kwanlin Dun First Nation Ross River,Yukon 35 McIntyre Road Y0B 1S0 Whitehorse,Yukon Tel: 867-969-2278 Y1A 5A5 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 867-633-7800 Selkirk First Nation E-mail: [email protected] Box 40 Liard First Nation Pelly Crossing,Yukon Box 328 Y0B 1P0 Watson Lake,Yukon Tel: 867-537-3331 Y0A 1C0 Fax: 867-537-3902 Tel: 867-536-2131 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Southern Tutchone Tribal Council Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation Box 2076 Box 135 Haines Junction,Yukon Carmacks,Yukon Y0B 1L0 Y0B 1C0 Tel: 867-634-2513 Tel: 867-863-5576 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 867-863-5710 Ta'an Kwach'an Council Web site: www.lscfn.ca Box 32081 Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation Whitehorse,Yukon Box 220 Y1A 5P9 Mayo,Yukon Tel: 867-668-3613 Y0B 1M0 Fax: 867-667-4295 Tel: 867-996-2265 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 867-996-2107 E-mail: [email protected]

38 The Pembina Institute Teslin Tlingit Council Industry Groups Box 133 Teslin,Yukon Canadian Association of Y0B 1B0 Geophysical Contractors Tel: 867-390-2532 1045, 1015 – 4th Street SW Fax: 867-390-2204 Calgary, AB E-mail: [email protected] T2R 1J4 Tel: 403-265-0045 Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Hän Nation Fax: 403-265-0025 Box 599 E-mail: [email protected] Dawson City,Yukon Web site: www.cagc.ca Y0B 1G0 Tel: 867-993-5385 The Canadian Association of Geophysical Fax: 867-993-6553 Contractors represents the companies Web site: www.trondek.com that undertake seismic exploration.You can find the Seismic Information Pamphlet on the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Association’s Web site. Operators give this Box 94 pamphlet to the owners of land where they Old Crow,Yukon are conducting seismic exploration.The Y0B 1N0 Association’s Web site also contains information Tel: 867-966-3261 about the best practices for specific activities. Fax: 867-966-3116 E-mail: [email protected] Canadian Association of Web site: www.oldcrow.yk.net Petroleum Landmen 350, 500 – 5 Avenue SW White River First Nation Calgary, AB General Delivery T2P 3L5 Beaver Creek,Yukon Tel: 403-237-6635 Y0B 1A0 Fax: 403-263-1620 Tel: 867-862-7802 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 867-862-7906 Web site: www.landman.ca E-mail: [email protected] Oil and gas companies hire professional land agents, or landmen, to deal with surface landowners and land administration. Landmen are involved in negotiations with landowners from the initial request to explore land to

Resources and Contacts 39 the time when a well or pipeline is abandoned Canadian Centre for Energy Information and reclaimed.The Canadian Association of 201, 322 – 11 Avenue SW Petroleum Landmen can provide you with Calgary, AB more information about landmen. T2R 0C5 Canadian Association of Tel: 1-877-606-4636 or 403-263-7722 Petroleum Producers Fax: 403-237-6286 2100, 350 – 7 Avenue SW E-mail: [email protected] Calgary, AB Web site: www.centreforenergy.com/silos/ET- T2P 3N9 CanEn01.asp Tel: 403-267-1100 The Canadian Centre for Energy Information Fax: 403-261-4622 aims to be the primary source for energy Web site: www.capp.ca information in Canada.The Centre is The Canadian Association of Petroleum responsible for the former Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is an industry group Communication Foundation, which provides representing about 140 companies involved in background information about industry the exploration, development and production practices.You can find the following of crude oil and natural gas in Canada. CAPP publications at: member companies account for about 97% of www.pcf.ca/bookstore/default.asp#general: the nation’s total production of petroleum. • Our Petroleum Challenge: Exploring CAPP has written a Guide for Effective Public Canada’s Oil and Gas Industry Involvement, which advises companies on how • Flaring: Questions and Answers to conduct effective public consultation.The • Sour Gas: Questions and Answers organizations has also worked with members • Canada’s Pipelines and stakeholders to develop more than 50 industry best practices and comprehensive Canadian Energy Pipeline Association operating guidelines, on topics such as 1650, 801 – 6th Avenue SW emergency response planning and flaring. In Calgary, AB 2000, CAPP issued its first annual Environment, T2P 3W2 Health and Safety Stewardship Progress Report, Tel: 403-221-8777 summarizing industry performance on a wide Fax: 403-221-8760 range of stewardship matters. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.cepa.com/index.html The CAPP Web site provides background information on the industry and links to other The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association Web sites. represents Canada’s transmission pipeline

40 The Pembina Institute companies. Pipelines transport oil and gas of wilderness through education, from producing regions to markets through- appreciation, and experience; out Canada and the United States.The • encouraging individual action to accomplish Canadian Energy Pipeline Association states these goals; and that its priorities include pipeline safety and • working cooperatively with government, integrity, environmental stewardship, First Nations, business, other organizations, Aboriginal relations and landowner relations. and individuals in a consensus-seeking Non-Government Organizations manner, wherever possible. in the Yukon Yukon Conservation Society Yukon Conservation Society Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society 302 Hawkins Street Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Whitehorse,Yukon Yukon Chapter Y1A 1X6 P.O. Box 31095 Tel: 867-668-5678 211 Main Street Fax: 867-668-6637 Whitehorse,Yukon E-mail: [email protected] Y1A 5P7 Web site: www.yukonconservation.org Tel: 867-393-8080 Concerned people in the Yukon founded Fax: 867-393-8081 the Yukon Conservation Society in 1968 to E-mail: [email protected] pursue ecosystem well-being throughout Web site: www.cpawsyukon.org the Yukon and beyond.The society is a busy, The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society grassroots, volunteer organization that (CPAWS) was founded in 1963. CPAWS is a serves the public through education, national organization that envisions a healthy research and advocacy work on a range ecosphere where people experience and of environmental issues. respect the natural ecosystem. CPAWS aims to The Caribou Commons Project achieve this by Caribou Commons Project • protecting Canada’s wild ecosystems in parks, 21 Klondike Road wilderness, and similar natural areas to Whitehorse,Yukon preserve the full diversity of habitats and Y1A 3L8 their species; E-mail: [email protected] • promoting awareness and understanding of Web site: www.cariboucommons.com ecological principles and the inherent values

Resources and Contacts 41 The Caribou Commons Project is an Porcupine Caribou Management Board international effort to permanently protect Porcupine Caribou Management Board the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou Box 4999 herd, located in Alaska’s Arctic National Whitehorse,Yukon Wildlife Refuge. A unique collaboration among Y1A 4S2 aboriginal people, northern artists and Tel: 867-633-4780 conservationists,the Caribou Commons Project E-mail: [email protected] is making people aware of the issue through Web site: www.pcmb.yk.ca/pcmb.html live multimedia concert presentations, slide show/lecture tours, and CD releases featuring In 1985, the Government of Canada, aboriginal original music and sound recordings of the organizations, the YTG, and the Government of Arctic.Visit their forum to share your thoughts the Northwest Territories signed an agreement and ideas with others concerned about the fate that created the Porcupine Caribou Management of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Board.The mandate of the Board is to cooperatively manage the Porcupine caribou Gwich’in Steering Committee herd and its habitat in Canada to ensure that the Gwich’in Steering Committee herd continues to be available for subsistence P.O. Box 122, 1st Avenue, Suite #2 use by aboriginal hunters, while recognizing that Fairbanks, Alaska other users may also share the harvest. U.S.A. 99701 The Board has eight representatives: the Tel: 907-458-8264 Council of Yukon First Nations appoints two; Fax: 907-457-8265 the YTG appoints two; the Inuvialuit Game Web site: www.alaska.net/~gwichin Council appoints one; the Northwest Territories The Gwich’in Nation established the Gwich’in Gwich’in appoints one; the Government of Steering Committee “to protect our people, the Northwest Territories appoints one; and caribou, land, air and water.”The Committee has the federal government appoints one. eight tribal members, chosen by the Chiefs. The Board nominates a chairperson and Four members are from Alaska and four has a secretary/treasurer. It meets about twice members are from Canada. Members attend a year, and holds conference calls, committee meetings and gather support.The primary goal meetings, and workshops throughout the of the Gwich’in Steering Committee is “to year as needed. establish Gwich’in cultural survival as a major issue in the debate over oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.”

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