text: Supports the draft EA Report and potential EA conditions provided by the Agency. Enforcement on both proponents is required.
  The Agency has proposed conditions that, should the Minister of Environment an Climate Change issue a decision statement that the designated projects is not likely to cause significant environmental effects and establish conditions with which the proponent must comply, the proponent will be required to comply.
  The federal government is responsible to make decisions related to projects being assessed under CEAA 2012.
  The direct economics of a project are not assessed under CEAA 2012. Comment provided to the C-NLOPB for information.
  In describing the preliminary determination regarding the depth of consultation, the Agency contacted the above-listed Indigenous groups, with the exception of Qalipu First Nation and Miawpukek First Nation, as the latter groups were being engaged for the purpose of good governance and were contacted separately with a description of engagement opportunities.
  Information was provided about Equinor's project, ExxonMobil's project, the Husky Energy Exploration Drilling Project, and the Nexen Energy ULC Flemish Pass Exploration Drilling Project.
  A term used to describe all three groups that form the superfamily Pinnipedia: phocids (true seals or earless seals), otariids (eared seals or fur seals and sea lions), and walrus. (Appendix C – Flemish Pass Exploration Drilling Project EIS)
  A term used to describe all members of the family Phocidae. These true/earless seals are more adapted to in-water life than are otariids, which have more terrestrial adaptations. Phocids use their hind flippers to propel themselves. (Appendix C – Flemish Pass Exploration Drilling Project EIS)
  The North Atlantic Right Whale and the Beluga Whale (St. Lawrence Estuary population) have a low incidence of opportunistic sightings in the project area, with one observation of each species recorded in the northern section of the project area based on Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ocean Biographic Information System, and Equinor marine mammal observer records.
  The proponents indicated that they used both the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service Guidelines (NMFS) (2016) and Southall et al. (2007) to provide guidance on threshold levels of underwater sound for auditory injury in marine mammals. These both present dual metrics for threshold values [i.e. recommend consideration of both peak sound pressure levels (SPLpeak) and cumulative (over 24 hours) sound exposure levels (SELcum)]. The proponents indicated that conclusions were based on whichever metric was first exceeded.
  Rmax, which is the maximum range at which the given sound level threshold is encountered in the model.
  160 dB re 1 µPa root mean square sound pressure level published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  Passive Acoustic Monitoring: means a technology that may be used to detect the subsea presence of vocalizing cetaceans (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2007).
  Each colour represents commercial fisheries harvesting locations for that year, with the most recent activity (2015 data) as the top layer. While the top colour represents the most recent year, there can be fishing occurring in certain areas over multiple years, as is the case for much of the offshore area.
  Drilling fluids are used to maintain well pressure and provide the primary barrier against well flow. If a permeable formation is exposed, loss of this primary barrier could result in the flow of formation fluid into the wellbore, which is referred to as a "kick".
  The blowout preventer is attached to the wellhead and is designed and equipped to provide redundant control systems and components to seal and secure the well. The blowout preventer is designed with multiple barriers to flow and allows the well to be shut in, the influx to be safely circulated out of the wellbore, and hydrostatic overbalance to be re-established.
  This mitigation measure was committed to by the Proponents in the context of potential accidents and malfunctions.
  JASCO Applied Sciences (Canada) provided qualitative predictions of underwater sound levels for the Projects. They compared environmental properties and source levels between the Projects and the Scotian Basin Exploration Drilling Project and concluded by comparing the radii of possible effects to marine life to those reported in the Scotian Basin Exploration Drilling Project. The modelling was performed to the maximum distance of 150 kilometres from the source.
  See Section 4.1.1 of this EA Report for a list of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island Indigenous groups the Agency consulted
  A summary of select comments is provided below. In some cases, comments from several parties were grouped based on similar themes for ease of reference; in this case, only some aspects of the comment may be attributable to the each party listed in the first column.
  
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  The Netherlands is famed for its many art museums, from the Van Gogh Museum to the Rijksmuseum and from the Escher in the Palace Museum to the Kröller-Müller Museum. But how diverse are they in terms of the ethnic backgrounds of their employees?
  In English-speaking countries like the US and the UK, there are many curators of colour in important museums, such as the Guggenheim in New York. But the Netherlands does not have the same level of racial diversity in top positions in its art museums.
  That’s why Dutch newspaper NRC spoke to nine directors of the most important Dutch art museums, gathered personnel data from 21 museums and interviewed cultural policy-makers, cultural scholars, scientists and freelance curators in the same sector.
  The NRC carried out research among the 21 leading museums, showing that of the 231 employees in high positions in art museums in the Netherlands, such as curators, just six have a non-western heritage. That’s just 2,6 percent. Amongst museum supervisory boards, there is a slightly higher percentage of ethnic diversity, but it still totals at only 6 percent.
  A more even cultural diversity can be found amongst museum employees in areas like security, technology or catering, but in curating, the figures are stark. The six curators of colour are employed at three museums: Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Kunstmuseum in The Hague and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.