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Responsible For:
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Developing, planning and coordinating policy matters relating
to the province's energy sector, and maintaining formal
administrative relations with the
Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board
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Activities including the review and assessment of energy policy
initiatives, assuring coordination in responses to related
legislative and regulatory actions by other jurisdictions
and agencies, coordinating energy-related activities of other
Newfoundland departments, community relations initiatives, and
formulating and recommending departmental positions on energy
issues including the
Kyoto Protocol,
climate change, the Department is working on explaining
issues related to climate change once further analysis is
completed, and the new Canada's Ocean Strategy being advanced
by the federal government; and
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Serving as an information source to the department's executive,
to other governments and government departments, and to the
general public.
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For more information please contact the
Policy & Strategic Planning Division
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