Natural Resources committee  I do know—you were speaking about that before—that for all of the wind lease areas they do only an environmental assessment and they do only an individual assessment. They don't do any sort cumulative study. That's different from the environmental impact statement. That goes through a full EIS process with a draft and comments throughout and involves an act that we call the NEPA, which is the national environmental protection act.

Natural Resources committee  I can't speak on behalf of the developers, but I know that no matter how many times we've gone to the table—and I've been doing this on the present U.S. offshore wind structure since 2014—we haven't been heard at all. Basically, we have no option. BOEM makes the final decisions.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, thank you for allowing me to join you virtually to offer my experience from the U.S. as you discuss Bill C-49. My name is Bonnie Brady. I am the executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, which represents all gear types of commercial fishermen on Long Island in New York.