Panel struck to help set up new Environmental Monitoring Program
Posted Mar 13, 2012 2:52 pm.
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The Alberta Government has struck a panel of experts to establish the framework for the province’s new Environmental Monitoring Program.
The six member group is made up of scientific, regulatory and academic experts, and will be run by former University of Lethbridge President Howard Tennant.
“We have to come up with ways of measuring, recording, interpreting and reporting what’s going on in the environment, with the central focus that will make better decisions about regulations, about remediation and about evolving problems that we don’t know about,” Tennant told a news conference Tuesday morning.
“In many ways, this is like stapling jello to the wall,” Tennant continued. “It’s tough to do, but that’s the task we’ve undertaken. It’s to see if we can come up with something which is not rigid, that will adjust over time for the development that Alberta is going to need over the next decade.”
The panel is to report back to the Alberta government by June 30th.
$11 million has been set aside to help cover some of the cost of the new initiative, but the group has also been charged with establishing a stable base of revenues to help support future research.
