Moose River Basin [ Moose River basin ]

river basin | river catchment | rivershed

catchment area | drainage basin | hydrographic basin | river basin

catchment area | catchment basin | hydrological basin | river basin

watercourse [ delta | river | river basin ]

Mackenzie River Basin Committee [ Mackenzie Basin Intergovernmental Liaison Committee ]

Fishes of the shallow rapids and riffles of the Pizhma River, Pechora River Basin, Russia

river tourism [ inland waterway cruise | inland waterway excursion | inland waterways cruise | inland waterways excursion | inland waterways tourism | inland waterways trip | inland waterway tourism | inland waterway trip | river cruise | river excursion | river trip ]

inland waterway transport [ inland waterway connection | inland waterway traffic | river traffic | river transport ]

River Basin Management Plans give a comprehensive overview of the main issues for each river basin district and should include the specific measures needed to achieve set environmental quality objectives.

Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to contribute to Canada’s GHG emission reduction goal of 17% below the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the governmen ...[+++]t undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...

3. Calls on the Governments of all riparian countries to the Jordan River Basin to work in a spirit of cooperation in order to save the Lower Jordan River and urges them to establish, with the support of the European Union, a Jordan River Basin Commission, which would be a trilateral forum of cooperation open to other riparian countries all of whom are currently parties to the Union for the Mediterranean;

River basin management plans give a comprehensive overview of the main issues for each river basin district and should include the specific measures needed to achieve set environmental quality objectives.