Changes to resource acts mean greater transparency, public information – Cabin Radio

Changes to two resource acts in the Northwest Territories will improve transparency and increase information that will be made public.

Both the Petroleum Resources Act [PRA] and the Oil and Gas Operations Act [OGOA] saw similar evolutions under new legislative changes that updated acts the territory inherited from the federal government under devolution in 2014.

Menzie McEachern, the territory’s director of mineral and petroleum resources, said some of the biggest changes to both acts lay in the sharing of information.

“What it does is it puts the legislation on its head from a transparency, confidentiality perspective,” he said.

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