This Table Provides a Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups, and Is Updated Bi-Weekly

This Table Provides a Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups, and Is Updated Bi-Weekly

This table provides a summary of Regional Assessment Committee meetings with Indigenous groups, and is updated bi-weekly. REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS EXPLORATORY DRILLING EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups Last Update: December 11, 2019 No. of Date Location Organization(s) Participants* High-Level Summary of Main Topics Discussed • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee • Overview of the Regional Assessment NunatuKavut • Opportunities for participation June 11, Community • Lack of capacity (e.g., in-house technical expertise) to • NunatuKavut Community Council 2 2019 Council Office, meaningfully participate in reviews of environmental Goose Bay NL assessments • Effects on migratory species (e.g., Atlantic salmon, birds) • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee • Overview of the Regional Assessment Nunatsiavut • Opportunities for participation Government • Availability of funding for post-Regional Assessment June 11, Office, Happy • Nunatsiavut Government 2 activities (e.g., monitoring) 2019 Valley-Goose • Regional Assessment scope, process and timeline Bay NL • Use of Indigenous Knowledge • Noise modelling • Importance of cumulative effects assessment • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee • Overview of the Regional Assessment Innu Nation • Opportunities for participation June 12, Office, • Innu Nation 2 • Lack of capacity (e.g., in-house technical expertise) to 2019 Sheshatshiu, meaningfully participate in reviews of environmental NL assessments • Health of waterfowl, salmon and marine species Qalipu • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee June 13, Mi’kmaq • Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation 2 • Overview of the Regional Assessment 2019 First Nation • Opportunities for participation Band Head Page 1 of 5 REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS EXPLORATORY DRILLING EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups Last Update: December 11, 2019 No. of Date Location Organization(s) Participants* High-Level Summary of Main Topics Discussed Office, Corner • Loss of ability to provide comment if Regional Brook, NL Assessment replaces project-specific Environmental Assessments • Use of Indigenous Knowledge in the Regional Assessment • Consideration of future shipping lanes in cumulative effects assessment • Proposed GIS platform • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee • Overview of the Regional Assessment • Opportunities for participation • Lack of ecosystem-based information in previous offshore environmental assessments • Atlantic salmon Hotel Pur, June 18, • Première Nation des Innus de • Loss of ability to provide comment if Regional Quebec City, 2 2019 Nutashkuan Assessment replaces project-specific Environmental QC Assessments • Data collection, availability and gaps • Activities in international waters • Ecosystem approach in the offshore • Consideration of climate change in cumulative effects assessment • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee Mi’kmaq • Overview of the Regional Assessment Confederacy June 25, • Opportunities for participation of PEI Office, • Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI 4 2019 • Atlantic salmon Charlottetown, • Access to participant funding PE • Catastrophic events (e.g., oil spills) Kwilmu’kw • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee June 25, • Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Maw-klusuaqn 1 • Overview of the Regional Assessment 2019 Office Negotiation • Opportunities for participation Page 2 of 5 REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS EXPLORATORY DRILLING EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups Last Update: December 11, 2019 No. of Date Location Organization(s) Participants* High-Level Summary of Main Topics Discussed Office, • Atlantic salmon and American eel - effects and data Millbrook, NS gaps • Cumulative effects assessment • Physical and social effects of spills and of other catastrophic events • Loss of ability to provide comment if Regional Assessment replaces project-specific Environmental Assessments • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee • Overview of the Regional Assessment Wolastoqey • Opportunities for participation June 26, Nation Office, • Atlantic salmon • Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick 4 2019 Fredericton, • Proposed GIS platform NB • Data availability and gaps • Traditionally harvested and culturally important species • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee Crowne Plaza • Overview of the Regional Assessment June 26, Hotel, • Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Incorporated 1 • Opportunities for participation 2019 Moncton, NB • Key species of concern • Catastrophic events (e.g., oil spills) and their effects Miawpukek • Introduction to the Regional Assessment Committee Mi’kamawey August 21, • Update of the Regional Assessment process Mawi’omi • Miawpukek First Nation 6 2019 • Discussion of Technical Advisory Group sessions Office, Conne • Effect of tanker traffic and oil spills River, NL • Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Crowne Plaza Office September Hotel, • Mi'gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat # • Indigenous Knowledge TAG Session 24, 2019 Moncton, NB • Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Incorporated • Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick Page 3 of 5 REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS EXPLORATORY DRILLING EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups Last Update: December 11, 2019 No. of Date Location Organization(s) Participants* High-Level Summary of Main Topics Discussed • Première Nation des Innus de September Hotel Pur, Nutashkuan 3 • Indigenous Knowledge TAG Session 26, 2019 Québec, QC • First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Sustainable Development Institute College of the October 2, North Atlantic, • NunatuKavut Community Council 2 • Indigenous Knowledge TAG Session 2019 Happy Valley Goose Bay, NL Peyton Inn, October 11, • Miawpukek First Nation Grand Falls- 5 • Indigenous Knowledge TAG Session 2019 • Qalipu First Nation Windsor, NL November Atsanik Lodge, • Nunatsiavut Government 3 • Indigenous Knowledge TAG Session 5, 2019 Nain, NL NunatuKavut • Update on upcoming Indigenous Knowledge workshop Community November on November 13 Council office, • NunatuKavut Community Council 3 6, 2019 • Upcoming Committee update at the end of November Happy Valley • Update on organizational changes at NCC Goose Bay, NL • Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office • Unama'ki Institute of Natural Kwilmu’kw Resources Maw-klusuaqn November • Conseil des Innu de Ekuanitshit Negotiation 14 • Indigenous Knowledge Workshop 13, 2019 • Miawpukek First Nation Office, • Mi'gmawe'l Tplu'tagnn Incorporated Millbrook, NS • NunatuKavut Community Council • Qalipu First Nation • Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick Kwilmu’kw December 2, • Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation • Indigenous Knowledge Workshop follow-up Maw-klusuaqn 8 2019 Office • Discussion of the Committee’s draft recommendations Negotiation Page 4 of 5 REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS EXPLORATORY DRILLING EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Summary of Regional Assessment Committee Meetings with Indigenous Groups Last Update: December 11, 2019 No. of Date Location Organization(s) Participants* High-Level Summary of Main Topics Discussed Office, • Unama'ki Institute of Natural • Demonstration and discussion of GIS decision-support Millbrook, NS Resources tool • Conseil des Innu de Ekuanitshit • Miawpukek First Nation • Mi'gmawe'l Tplu'tagnn Incorporated • NunatuKavut Community Council • Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick * External participants only (i.e., does not include Committee and Task Team members). 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