Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Geoscience for Sustainable Development of Natural Resources

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTL06 (NR)

Core responsibility

Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

This program creates new geoscience knowledge that supports sustainable development of Canada’s land, mineral, energy and water resources. Geoscientific knowledge informs land decisions such as marine protected areas, pre-exploration geoscience so that companies can efficiently discover new mineral and low-carbon footprint energy resources, and environmental and groundwater studies so that resource sites can be developed and efficiently remediated post-production. Integrating the results of these studies will increase the efficiency of discovery, sustaining mining- and energy-dependent communities, while ensuring that these developments impact the environment and groundwater in the most minimal way. NRCan provides expert advice to government departments, regulatory bodies and industry to inform regulatory policies, industry practices and environmental assessments which contributes to sustainable land-use decision -making and groundwater management. This ultimately serves to improve Canada’s global competitiveness and supports the sustainable development of Canadian mining-dependent communities.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.