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Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to contribute to Canada’s GHG emission reduction goal of 17% below the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the governmen ...[+++]t undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...

Many pesticides have indirect effects on the ecosystem, i.e. through food chain effects (reduced bird population in agro-ecosystems due to massive reduction of prey insects).

As regards biodiversity, today, the CAP refers to compliance with environmental requirements, including the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive, the infringement of which results in penalties. These penalties reduce direct aid and cut specific rural development measures, especially payments for the Natura 2000 regions as well as agri-environmental payments.

43. Reiterates the views it has already expressed in its resolution of 4 December 2008 on the adoption of a European Cormorant Management Plan, and points out that reducing the prejudice caused by cormorants and other birds of prey to aquaculture firms is a major factor in production costs and thus in their survival and competitiveness; draws attention to the need to assess losses caused by cormorants and other birds of prey in the aquaculture sector and to draw up plans for corrective action in the sector;

Member States should intensify their checks on legal as well as illegal imports of wild birds in order to reduce the risk of spreading avian influenza through imports of wild birds.

3. Insists that the impact of fishing upon non-commercial species of all kinds (fish, sharks, turtles, birds, marine mammals) must be investigated, combined with research into alterations to fishing gears and practices to decrease such catches, with a view to developing management plans to reduce these impacts; notes that in certain cases, fisheries may need to be reduced or even closed in order to prevent incidental catches of severely depleted species;