New Offshore Legislation Strengthening Environmental Protection Comes into Effect

29/02/2016

he Energy Safety and Security Act came into force on February 26th, 2016. For more information on the Energy Safety and Security Act, please visit Natural Resource’s website here .  For more information on the associated changes to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation (Nova Scotia) Act, please visit the Nova Scotia Department of Energy’s website here .

Press releases from governments can be found here:

Natural Resources Canada 
Nova Scotia Department of Energy 

The CNSOPB has also posted the new Guidelines Respecting Financial Requirements on our website, which can be found here.  Other guidelines created as a result of the Energy Safety and Security Act  will follow.

For more information:
Kathleen Funke, Advisor, Communications
kfunke@cnsopb.ns.ca