The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Michael Harvey, has released his Report A-2020-005 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015. A summary of the Report is included below.
To view the Report in its entirety, please go to http://www.oipc.nl.ca/reports/commissioner
| Report: | A-2020-005 |
| Report Date: | April 17, 2020 |
| Public Body: | Department of Fisheries and Land Resources |
| Summary: | In the late summer and early fall of 2019, a significant salmon mass mortality event occurred at several fish farm locations on the south coast of Newfoundland. This event attracted considerable media attention as well as questions about the potential impact of this event, as well as subsequent clean-up operations, on the local environment and/or the health of people in the area. On October 30, 2019, this Office commenced an own motion investigation into whether section 9(3) (Public Interest) of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015 applied and whether the Department of Fisheries and Land Resources was obligated to make public disclosure of information about this mass mortality event. The Commissioner’s investigation concluded that the Department did not have information in its possession about a risk of significant harm to the environment or to the health or safety of the public which it would have been obliged to disclose. |
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