Submissions of West Coast Environmental Law in Response to the review of policy on access to information regarding compensation details in petroleum and natural gas surface lease agreements

West Coast has reviewed an Initial Draft Discussion Paper prepared and circulated on March 11, 2005 by Perrin, Thorau and Associates, consultants to the BC Minister of Energy and Mines, and submits the following comments on the issue of access to information regarding compensation details in petroleum and natural gas surface lease agreements.