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Welcome
Welcome and thank you for visiting our website. The Northern Gas Project Secretariat has offices in Inuvik and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and was established to assist in the environmental assessment and regulatory review of the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project. The Secretariat also has two regional offices, staffed on a part-time basis, in Norman Wells and Fort Simpson. Secretariat staff supports the environmental and regulatory agencies that are reviewing the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project, particularly those agencies that must hold public hearings as part of their review. The Secretariat provides services to those agencies in four core areas: communications; community relations and public hearing logistics; information management; and administrative support. Our staff travels extensively throughout the proposed project route to provide information and updates to the general public about the MGP review process. In addition to community visits, the Secretariat communicates with the public in a variety of other ways, including regular email and fax updates and announcements, radio and newspaper advertising and, of course, through our website. The Secretariat also maintains a Public Registry of documents submitted to the various panels during the review process. I hope you take the time to visit the many pages of information related to the review on our website. If at any time you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us and we will do our utmost to assist you. Brian Chambers
About The Secretariat The Secretariat was established through the Memorandum of Agreement for the Establishment of the Northern Gas Project Secretariat to provide support to the panels and boards with public hearing requirements conducting an environmental assessment and regulatory review of the Mackenzie Gas Project. Those panels include the Joint Review Panel for the environmental assessment, the National Energy Board Panel, Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board Panel (if required) and the NWT Water Board Panel (if required) for the regulatory review.
Our History The concept of the Northern Gas Project Secretariat was first unveiled in the Cooperation Plan, a document produced by the Northern Pipeline Environmental Impact Assessment and Regulatory Chairs' Committee in June 2002. This Plan describes the framework that the authorities with environmental impact assessment and regulatory mandates, called the Agencies, will follow to implement coordinated environmental impact assessment and regulatory processes for a proposed major northern gas pipeline project and associated developments. It supports the exploration of potential areas and outlines methods of cooperation that will avoid duplication and provide clarity and certainty of process for the public and potential proponents. In June 2003, the Mackenzie Valley Producers Group filed the Preliminary Information Package (PIP), which triggered the environmental impact assessment and regulatory review process to commence. This step lead to the opening of the Northern Gas Project Secretariat.
One-page information sheets What is the Northern Gas Project Secretariat? (PDF-112KB) What is the Cooperation Plan? (PDF-117KB) What is the Mackenzie Gas Project? (PDF-117KB) What is an environmental assessment and regulatory review? (PDF-94KB) Have your say in the Mackenzie Gas Project - the public hearings (PDF-112KB
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