Greg Carter

GoA Partnership Symposium

FormatFormat

AENV role in emergency AENV role in emergency managementmanagement

AENV role in the fieldAENV role in the field Deployable resourcesDeployable resources Activation CriteriaActivation Criteria ““Criteria for success”Criteria for success”

AENV’s Role in EM

Risk management and mitigation– Outreach– Approvals– Technical advice

Incident and exercise planning Incident response

– Staff and resource deployment– Technical expertise

Remediation

ASERT’s Roles

Risk management for EM Assist in exercise planning and

operational readiness Coordinate AENV response Facilitate engagement of non-AENV

partners Coordinate resource requirements Coordinate information management Coordinate handover to Regions

AENV Emergency Response StructureWho:

– Regional Primaries (apprx 35)– AENV Specialists– MAML and Air Monitoring Tm– Surface Water Monitoring Tm– Water Management Ops

Flow Forecasting, River Engineering Dam Safety

– AENV Communications Team– ASERT

Where: – 3 Regions / 6 Districts / 20 offices

LEVEL 3 RESPONSE

ASERT Incident Commander

Operations (Duty Officer)

Logistics

ERO or Primary(OSC)

ERO or Primary

On-Water ProtectionDivision(AENV)

Inland ProtectionDivision(AENV)

Shoreline ProtectionDivision(AENV)

Planning

Investigator

Sampling

GEOCRepresentatives from GOA

AENV EOC

Other Gov’tEOC’s

Support

Site Management

Field Operations

If this position is located in the RP’s ICP, then the 2nd ERO/Primary communicates directly with Duty Officer and this position is removed from the structure.

Site Management can be defined as the Incident Command Post – removed from the Field Operations

Deployable Resources

Staff– Specialists in water, air, soil, ER

Boats (sampling) Snowmobiles, ATVs Mobile Air Monitoring Lab Air Monitoring Units (Edm and Calg Fire) Mobile EOCs Spill response trailers

Activation Criteria

Natural disaster causing “adverse effect” Industrial ERP DG release greater than 200 litres Release into a water body Gas well blow-out or any other

uncontrolled air releases Event that could impact air quality Fatality as a result of an enviro incident Incident that could impact a major

transportation route

“Criteria for Success”

Successful containment Successful cleanup Successful remediation Achieved via successful response

and coordination

ConclusionConclusion

AENV has an integrated response AENV has an integrated response teamteam

Array of technical specialistsArray of technical specialists A coordinating agency to A coordinating agency to

coordinate AENV actions, and coordinate AENV actions, and external with other organisationsexternal with other organisations

Summary Comments & QuestionsQuestions?