(Return tabled) Question No. 448 Mr. Bruce Hyer: With regard to the cruise ship industry since 2005: (a) what federal departments have provided support to the cruise ship industry across Canada, to date; (b) how much was spent on each project by each federal department, agency, board and commission in support of the cruise ship industry, to date; (c) what is the annual total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in each federal agency, board, or commission working on implementation of projects related to the cruise ship industry; (d) what specific federal programs support the development of the cruise ship industry in Canada; (e) what were the discharge incidents of sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or ...[+++]solid waste by cruise ships in Canadian waters, distributed by date, location, ship, and type of discharge; (f) how many charges, warnings or penalties were issued against cruise ship operators for all sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or other discharges in contradiction of regulations, including date, operator, location, offence and amount; (g) how much was spent by each federal agency, commission, department or organization in enforcement of regulations related to discharge of sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or other discharges; (h) what is the annual total number of FTEs working in each federal agency, commission, department or organization on enforcement of regulations related to discharge of sewage, bilge, grey water, or other discharges; (i) what onboard observation has been performed by each federal agency, commission, department or organization with respect to discharge of sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or other discharges, distributed by year and location; (j) what reports, studies, investigations, conclusions, regulatory changes, warnings, or penalties were issued or undertaken by any federal government body related to the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II’s September 2005 discharge incident off the coast of Cape Breton; (k) how muc ...

For renewable energy and energy from waste used by autoproducers, quantities must be reported from the following energy products: geothermal energy, solar thermal, industrial waste (non-renewable), municipal waste (renewable), municipal waste (non-renewable), wood/wood waste/other solid waste, landfill gas, sewage sludge gas, other biogas and liquid biofuels.

Waste: With 80% of the population living in urban areas, an equivalent proportion of various types of waste, such as municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, commercial waste, construction and demolition waste, is generated in towns and cities, and is affected by the key environmental legislation on waste.

The overall objectives of the project are to: (1) promote environmentally sound municipal waste disposal within the overall national solid waste management plan; (2) reinforce the administrative structures dealing with solid waste management, through the identification of optimal locations for the establishment of sanitary landfills in the several governorates; (3) formulate Codes of Practice for sanitary landfill design and operation.

Three of the approved projects relate to networks for collecting and treating solid wastes: the treatment network for the coastal strip in the North-East region receives ECU 22 million, the system for collecting and treating solid waste in Vale do Sousa receives ECU 15 million and the upgrading of the collection and treatment system for urban solid wastes in Vale do Ave receives ECU 10 million.

2. The project for collection and treatment of solid waste in Vale do Sousa has been drawn up jointly by six communes (Castelo de Paiva, Felgueiras, Lousada, Pacos de Ferreira, Paredes and Penafiel) and is intended to solve the problems concerning the final disposal of wastes and urban solid wastes produced in the region concerned.