The sub-series comprises 20 files arranged in alphabetical order by subject headings and documents Jim Fulton's activities as the National Environment Critic for the 1981-1983 periods. The major portion of the records deal with the 1982-1983 time frame.
Record type consists of incoming correspondence with attachments; outgoing replies; press clippings; handouts; information kits and newsletters; environment groups press releases; NDP communiqués; Skeena reports and working notes.
Issues documented are - ACID RAIN: Coal dust problems in Stikine - Iskut; AMAX: Assessment of the Alice Arm trailings; departmental regulations; mine operations in Kitsault B.C.; winter maintenance of the Kwinathal Valley Road; On-land tailing disposal system; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: Use of Slowpoke III nuclear reactor for energy purposes in remote and northern communities; Peace Tax Force; nuclear fuel cycle; Atomic Energy Control Board; production and accumulation of Low Level Radioactive Waste in Canada; Private Member Bill to amend the Nuclear Liability Act; Fulton's Private Member Bill C-652 concerning amendments to the Nuclear Liability Act; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT - OPERATION DISMANTLE: Cruise missile testing; open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau pertaining to the Arms race; PARKS - HAIDA, SPATSIZI, DELKATLA SLOUGH; Park monitoring; sale of lands in Park Area; Deltkatla Wildlife Sanctuary- gravel extraction; Skeena - Nass Strategic Plan; status of the Haida Tribal Park; logging concerns in the Northwestern area of the Graham Island; Phenoxy herbicides; pollution, pesticides toxic watch; Wolf Control; licensing of pesticides; waste spill from Dupont's Baker Mine in Northern B.C.; spillage of tailings into Babine lake by Noranda Bell Copper mine; evaluation of proposal by D&D Service Ltd for PCD destruction process.
REGULATION ON LEADED GASOLINE: Elimination of lead from Gasoline; B.C. HYDRO ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT, SLAVE RIVER, B.C.: Alcan's Kemano II; Atlin Lake Storage Project; Slave River Economic Overview Assessment; Slave River Hydro electrical Project Environmental implication; TOXIC CHEMICALS: Procedures governing the registration and use of pesticides; Ottawa - Carleton Energy from Waste District Heating Study; use of herbicides to control vegetation on the Canada - U.S. boundary; Budworm spraying program; WHALE POACHING - OTHER ANIMALS: Grizzly bear quotas; contamination of surface waste by `Giardia Iamblia'; Park Canada's policy on selling bisons for stocking purposes on private farm; research technique used to monitor Pacific's Icelandic Killer Whales; projection of Robson Bight on Vancouver Island, habitat of Killer Whales; WILDLIFE - OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, 1988: Environmental impact of Games of Kananaskis Country; WILDLIFE TRAPPING: Case of rehabilitation of injured Owls; Wolf control Program; and humane trappings standards.
