Translation of "réserves d'hydrocarbures " (French → English) :

41.3 Nothing in this Act prevents any activity in Sable Island National Park Reserve of Canada that is authorized by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board under the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act, and no authority under this Act is necessary in order to carry on any activity there that is authorized by that Board under that Act.

101 (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Part, the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund is liable for the matters referred to in sections 51, 71 and 77 in relation to oil, Article III of the Civil Liability Convention and Article 3 of the Bunkers Convention, if

(Return tabled) Question No. 91 Mr. Ted Hsu: With regard to oil spill clean-ups in Northern Arctic waters: (a) what dispersants does the government use or have plans to use in this process; (b) what is the quantity of the government’s stocks of these dispersants; (c) what tests has the government conducted concerning the use of these dispersants in the clean-up of an Arctic oil spill; (d) what tests has the government conducted concerning the effects of these dispersants on (i) the Arctic environment, (ii) Arctic wildlife; (e) when and by whom were the tests in (c) and (d) conducted; (f) what were the costs of the tests in (c) and ( ...[+++]d); (g) does the government have a regimen in place for the ongoing evaluation of dispersants to be used in Arctic spills; (h) how are the dispersants which the government evaluates graded in terms of effectiveness for use in the Arctic; (i) in the event of such an occurrence, does the government have plans to use a dispersant to break up a spill at the source of the leak in Arctic waters; (j) what is the government’s assessment of the effectiveness of the use of dispersants at the source of a spill in the clean-up process; and (k) what, if any, tests has the government conducted to develop a strategy for using dispersants to break up spills at the source, and what are the costs for these tests?

Subject to the provisions of Regulations 10 and 11 of this Annex and paragraph 2 of this Regulation, any discharge into the sea of oil or oily mixtures from ships to which this Annex applies shall be prohibited except when all the following conditions are satisfied:

Coal makes up about 66% of Canada's proven hydrocarbons, with bitumen making up 24%. Conventional oil and gas make up the rest.

The SEMs (especially the North African countries and Syria) have considerable oil and gas potential, with proven reserves at the end of 1992 totalling 6030 Mt of oil and condensates and 5650 Gm3 of natural gas, and major facilities for production (217 Mt/year of oil) and 66 Gm3/year of natural gas in 1992) and for exporting to Europe, mainly consisting of 5 LNG plants (35 Gm3/year capacity), 20 LNG carriers, refineries with a capacity of 146 Mt/year, and oil terminals.