Session Abstract

Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management - Information Sharing Initiative

In September 2005, the executives of Environment, Energy and Sustainable Resource Development committed to create a more efficient and highly integrated way of managing Alberta’s natural resources and environment. They committed to act collectively with a comprehensive, integrated approach to values and behaviours that go beyond ministry-by-ministry policies, initiatives, programs and regulations. The executives agreed that this starts with a common direction or set of outcomes that serves the public. They also agreed that their departments’ engagement with each other must be much deeper than simple co-ordination and streamlining.

The result will be a new way of working together, a way in which the executives and the ministries will align and share information across ministries and with the public. In the process, Alberta will become the best natural resource and environmental manager in the world.

Speaker Biography

Jennifer McGill

Jennifer's roots can be found in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1995 she graduated from Saint Mary's University with a degree in physical geography. In 1996 she completed an advanced diploma in GIS from COGS. Subsequently Jennifer worked for the Dept of Natural Resources, Minerals and Energy Branch in Halifax, N.S. From 1997 to 2004 she worked as a consultant in the geomatics field in support of the forest industry in Northern British Columbia. In late 2004, she moved from Prince George to Edmonton to work for Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) as the Regional Services Manager within the Resource Information Management Branch (RIMB). Since the fall of 2005, Jennifer has been seconded for a 2 year term to work for the Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management (SREM) Office in support of the Cross Ministry Information Sharing Initiative.