World Wildlife Fund Canada / Le fonds mondial pour la nature
Registration:
31
of
79
(2016-11-14
to
2016-11-15)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Communicated with respect to a financial contribution from the Transfer Payments Program - Climate Change and Clean Air to enable efforts to seek and communicate views of northerners, including indigenous Canadians, on their perspectives of the risks posed by heavy fuel oil and black carbon emissions from ships, and from diesel power plants in the Arctic
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
- Communicated with respect to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act and the creation of a regulation that would ban use of Heavy Fuel Oil due to potential detrimental impact on the marine environment in the event of a spill.
Policies or Program
- Communicated concerns about the lack of substantive federal involvement in the Nunavut Land Use Plan process to date and concerns about the grandfathering of mineral rights.
- Communicated with respect to investment in renewable energy projects
Regulation
- Communicated concerns about the scope of the review of the Canada Petroleum Resources Act being too narrowly focused on the original policy objectives of the Act.
- Communicated with respect to including fishing vessels in the Polar Code to ensure appropriate safety and environmental oversight for that type of vessel
- Communicated with respect to the Arctic Water Pollution Prevention Act and regulation of the discharge of untreated sewage and greywater from ships in the arctic.