Public Accounts Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment about wetland capping? So, to your knowledge, can you remember receiving any direction from that specific department pertaining to this permit and this request? P. MADDEN: Well, we would have been in contact. I mean, I’m not sure what, specifically, they would have said, but we would have been in constant contact. I don’t think we were getting any feedback like – we were essentially just saying, you know, we’ll get back to you when we can, I guess, that kind of feedback. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: So you did communicate with the department that you guys had a timeline and that you would proceed with your timeline. Were they aware? P. MADDEN: Yes, that would have been part of the communication. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: Okay. Thank you very much. P. MADDEN: I mean, it’s hard to remember exact conversations. These would have been phone conversations and I’m not trying to blame anybody for anything. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: No, I understand. I’m just trying to formulate the communication here. I’m trying to determine, you know, with this specific request from government, wetland capping, Nalcor had its own timelines and its own work plan and so government is putting something into your work plan and you’re in Labrador weather and you’re trying to proceed – like, what was actually happening? Where did the communication – or did it even break down? Maybe it didn’t break down. P. MADDEN: I don’t think it did break down. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: Okay. I am trying to determine were you clear in your communication to government. You had a timeline and this is the timeline you were following. There are also indications that Nalcor had suggested that it could be done after you did your work in that fall. I mean, you’re permits, so you probably – P. MADDEN: It is my understanding that that would have been tough to pull off. It was already a very uncertain approach to reduce the issue. I think that that would have been a worst-case scenar

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Newfoundland and Labrador — Committees

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