This sub-series comprises 11 files arranged in alphabetical order by subject matter. The majority of the records deals with the 1991 time frame. The records dated 1988 to 1990 and 1992 were migrated to this sub-series by Fulton's staff in order to close issues or bring forward ongoing issues. The files document Fulton's actions, activities, role and work as National Advocate on Environment and work with the Standing Committee on Environment.
The record types are: incoming correspondence and attachments; Fulton and Staff replies; departmental reports; newsletters from environmental groups; clippings and photocopies of clippings; and reference material.
The issues documented are: field trial of modified corn at the Environmental Sciences Research Station of the University of Western Ontario; Removal of contaminated soils from former Expo 86 site to Fraser River Harbour Commission land in Richmond; environmental impacts of space research; Joint Environment review of James Bay; lack of contents reference environmental concerns in the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement; Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance; Cogla and Kulluk Drilling Program; Rafferty - Alameda Dam, Saskatchewan; Oldman River Dam, James Bay issues in Quebec; Hydro-Quebec's Ste- Marguerite River power project; sulphur dioxide emissions; Grande Baleine hydroelectric complex; Noranda Minerals, Bell Copper Mine Tailing spill into Babine Lake; proposed Northumberland Strait Crossing Project; Parlby Creek - Buffalo Lake Development Project; and James Bay II Quebec Hydro Development project.
Greta Whale Hydro Electric Project; global warming and impact on Arctic climate; management of hazardous wastes; Tioxide Canada Inc., industrial waste; Surety Environmental Inc. Of Calgary to set up two waste treatment facilities in Nova Scotia; Swan Hill special waste management facility; Lake Laberge and Tagish Lake; Iskut Valley Road option study; private highways in B.C.; Pulp-mill proposed by Orenda Forest Products Ltd; Tanker Traffic in the Port of Vancouver; Brander-Smith report on tanker safety; abandoned fuel drums in Northern British Columbia; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; proposed drilling program in the Beaufort Sea by Gulf Canada Resources Ltd; South Moresby Forest Replacement Account; beehive burners at Weston (Carnaby) Mills in Hazelton, B.C.; Levels of benzo (a)pyrene in Kitimat, B.C.; Wood Buffalo, National Park; Point Aconi Thermal Generating Plant Project; Environment Canada Report regarding the effects of chlorine effluent from pulp mill; Celgar Pulp Mill Expansion in Castlegar, B.C.; Tatshenshini Wilderness Area; poaching in the area of the Transboundary systems with Alaska; and Environment Canada's humane trapping programs.
