The sub-series comprises seven files arranged in alphabetical order by subject headings and document Jim Fulton's activities and work as National Environment Critic for 1984. The major portion of the records deals with the 1984 time frame.
Record types consist of incoming-correspondence and attachments; Federal government department newsletters; reports produced by private firms; Access to Information requests; lists of Amax documents not provided by Fisheries through the Access of Information process; excerpts of Hansards, and clippings.
The subjects include the following topics listed below. ACID-RAIN: Destruction of the forests; external peer review of the Long Range Transport of Airborne Pollutants Program; Kitimat aluminium smelter source of acid rain in the Skeena Region; National Survival Institute of Toronto; Key Lake Spill, Saskatchewan (Uranium mining operation); lead in gasoline; reduce automobile emission levels in new cars; opposition to proposed logging on Meares Island; timber value in South Morseby; creation of a terrestrial provincial Park in South Moresby Island, B.C.; logging plans for Burnaby Island; effects on wildlife of the use of Banff National Park for Olympic Games; preservation of the Tsikika-Robson Bight. AMAX: Evolution of the Amax application for amendments to their tailings disposal permit; Stikine River fisheries; and application by Amax for amendments of the waste management.
POLLUTION: Fumigants chlorbromuran and allidochlor; Ecology Action Centre; Dioxine emissions from incinerators; Northwest Coalition for Alternative to Pesticides; New Brunswick Task Force on the Environment and Cancer; Skeena issues; Stikine-Iskut, logging; studies by the Canadian Wildlife Service on migratory birds on the Queen Charlotte Islands; tourism potential of the Stikine River; B.C. Recreation Corridors Policy; Canadian Heritage River System Program. WILDLIFE: Environment 2000 funding; forest research management; salvage of the tug "Arctic Ublureak"; extraction of gravel form the Delkatla Wildlife Sanctuary near Masset, B.C.; Environmental Studies Revolving Funds; Asbestos Ballast Issue in Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec; Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park; organization of the West Coast Dumping Workshop and Preparation of an Annual Report; elimination of the CWS Wildlife Research and Interpretation Division in Atlantic Canada; Nechako River Bird Sanctuary; Aboriginal hunting rights of Indian People; and Canadian Wildlife Service falcon breeding facility at Wainwright, Alberta.
