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The Minister of the Environment was a cabinet-level position in the Grand Ducal Cabinet of Westarctica from 2005 - 2010. Westarctica's first Minister of the Environment was Eduard Versluijs, the Baron of Andrus.
When he first became a member of the Hereditary Nobility of Westarctica, Eduard was keenly interested in pursuing automated defense forces in the waters of the Southern Ocean. To this end, he was made Chief of the Robotics and Surveillance Branch of the Ministry of Defense.
After making some radical proposals for automated squid-like robots that would monitor the security of Westarctica from underwater, the Baron saw the practical application for automated monitoring of the oceanic environment and requested that his project be moved from the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of the Environment. As no such ministry existed at that time, Grand Duke Travis created it and placed Eduard at its head.