Sustainable Resource Development Overview

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Sustainable Resource Development Overview

• Alberta Environmental Networks Annual General
  Assembly
• June 3, 2005
• Dave Bartesko - Program Manager

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Outline

• Minister/Deputy Minister
• Vision
• Mission
• Major Responsibilities
• SRD Summary

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Outline cont

• Structure
• Organization Chart
• Organizational Highlights
• Legislation
• Contact
• Questions

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Minister/Deputy Minister

• Honourable David Coutts MLA for
  Livingstone-Macleod
• Mr. Brad Pickering Deputy Minister

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Vision

• Albertas public lands and natural resources
  (forests, rangelands, fish and wildlife) are
  managed within a policy, administrative and
  regulatory framework that benefits both present
  and future Albertans.

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Mission

• To ensure the benefits Albertans receive from
  Albertas public lands and natural resources
  (forests, rangelands, fish and wildlife) are
  achieved in a manner that is sustainable,
  equitable, responsible and in the public
  interest.

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Major Responsibilities

• Forest Protection protects Albertas forests by
  preventing and suppressing wildfire in the forest
  protection area.
• Forest land and resource development enhances
  the economic, environmental, and social
  contributions of Albertas public forested lands
  to Albertans.

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Major Responsibilities (cont)

• Fish and wildlife management enhances the
  economic, environmental, and social contributions
  of Albertas fish and wildlife resources to
  Albertans
• Rangeland management enhances the economic,
  environmental, and social contributions of
  Albertas public rangelands to Albertans.

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Major Responsibilities (cont)

• Land use disposition management optimizes the
  benefits (environmental, social, and economic)
  that Albertans receive from public lands through
  effective, efficient planning and disposition
  management.

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SRD Summary

• Albertans across the province enjoy a great
  abundance of natural resources. Sustainable
  Resource Development (SRD) works with Albertans
  throughout Alberta to ensure a balance between
  the economic, environmental and social values of
  our province. SRD takes action on forest fires,
  manages fish and wildlife, oversees the
  development of Albertas forests, and manages the
  use of public lands.

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Organizational Highlights

• Human Resource Services staffing, recognition,
  staff development.
• Strategic Corporate Services finance, digital
  data, information, administration.
• Policy Planning focuses on facilitating
  strategic policy alignment within the Ministry to
  ensure SRD's business plan goals are achieved.

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Organizational Highlights cont

• Communications public information products
• Natural Resource Conservation Board The board
  reviews applications for major natural resource
  development projects.
• Surface Rights Board An arbitration board
  authorized to allow entry on private and crown
  land for energy activities. The Board also sets
  the compensation payable by the energy company to
  the persons affected by the entry.

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Organizational Highlights cont

• Land Compensation Board An arbitration board
  authorized to determine the amount of
  compensation payable to a landowner or a tenant
  whose land is taken by an authority such as a
  municipality or the province for public work or a
  project.
• Fish and Wildlife Division wildlife management,
  fish management and enforcement. Biodiversity
  Strategy.

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Organizational Highlights cont

• Forest Protection Division suppression,
  prevention, FireSmart.
• Public Lands and Forests Division
• Forest management
• Rangeland management
• Land management
• Disposition management
• Integrated Land Management Program

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Organizational Highlights cont

• Strategic Forestry Initiatives softwood lumber
  trade dispute, strategy for unallocated timber,
  and tenure renewal.
• New ADM Position implementation of the
  Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management
  Framework development of the Land Use Framework.

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Organizational Highlights cont

• Delegated Authority Organizations
• Alberta Conservation Association
• Alberta Professional Outfitters Society
• Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta

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Legislation

• Public Lands Act
• Forests Act
• Wildlife Act
• Fisheries (Alberta) Act
• Mines and Minerals Act (Part 8)
• Forest Reserves Act
• Surveys Act

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Legislation cont

• Forest and Prairie Protection Act
• Natural Resource Conservation Board Act
• Expropriation Act
• Surface Rights Act

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Contact

• For more information, contact Dave Bartesko,
  Program Manager at dave.bartesko_at_gov.ab.ca or
  [phone].
• Department website address
• http//www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/

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Questions