M-426 Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should immediately act upon the findings and recommendations of the Fall 2012 Environment and Sustainable Development Report as they relate to the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB), in collaboration with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the C-NLOPB, by: (a) working with appropriate federal departments and agencies, as well as other organizations as necessary, to ensure that individual and collective response plans for a major oil spill are adequately resourced and coordinated, well defined, and annually tested both individually and collectively; (b) working with other federal departments, such as Fisheries and Oceans, Transport Canada, and Environment Canada to establish and clarify the roles and responsibilities of federal government departments and agencies in the event of a major oil spill, as well as the resources that would be available if a spill were to occur; (c) working with appropriate federal departments and agencies, as well as other organizations as necessary to build in-house expertise within the C-NLOPB to manage a major spill or loss of well control and set in place formal arrangements to provide spill response equipment; (d) working with their federal partners, including Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, to identify and address the key information gaps in strategic and environmental assessments; (e) establishing a systematic process to prepare an annual risk-based audit plan and keep with board policies; and (f) completing its review of the spill response capability of operators under its jurisdiction.