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THE NATIONAL Ad-Hoc COMMITTEE on GROUNDWATER

Raison d’être
 

  • Recommended by the participants to the 1st National Workshop in Groundwater in June 2000
  • To foster groundwater studies at the national level
  • As a first step, a national Ad-Hoc committee has been formed on a temporary basis- from May to September 2001

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AD-Hoc Committee objectives
 

  • Coordinate development of the first draft of a Canadian groundwater framework
  • Promote the framework to interested federal and provincial departments and other stakeholders

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Origin and schedule
 

  • Drawn from the provinces and territories, academia, and the private sector (one representative from each)
  • The national Ad-Hoc committee is formed on a temporary basis
  • The Ad-Hoc committee will organize the 2nd National Workshop on Groudnwater in September 2001
  • The national Ad-Hoc committee will be dissolved in September 2001
  • The national Ad-hoc committee will be replaced by a permanent comittee that will be outlined in the framework upon approval of the latter in September 2001, during the 2nd National Workshop on GW

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Operations
 

  • The expenses for operating the national AD-Hoc committee will be covered by the Geological Survey of Canada
  • The committee will communicate via teleconferences about once every two weeks from May to September 2001, and will meet face-to-face once.
  • Each member of the ad-hoc national committee will liaise with his/her stakeholder groups of interest, be they federal or provincial/territorial government departments, universities or industry
  • The committee will generate an E-mail list of interested people to be informed of very meeting/action taken by the committee
  • Provision of secretarial support to the committee will be the responsibility of the Geological Survey of Canada

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Members and liaison group
 
Name Affiliation Stakeholder group for liaison
Al Kohut Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection B.C. British Columbia
Nolan Shaheen Sask Water Prairies
Cam Baker Ontario Geological Survey Ontario
Michel Ouellet Ministère de l’Environnement Québec
Darryl Pupek NB Dept. Env & Local Gov. Atlantic
Dave Rudolph Univ. Waterloo Universities
Maurice Lewis CGWA Industry, NGO’s consultants
Allan Crowe EC-NWRI Federal
Alfonso Rivera
Chairman
NRCan-GSC Federal

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