An
"environmental assessment" is a process to understand and evaluate the impact that human activities or projects may have on the environment. It involves studying the potential effects on things like air, water, land, and wildlife to make informed decisions about how to protect the environment.
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European legislation
on environmental assessment and habitats has had a very significant influence on planning and environmental law in this country.
As modern cleanup efforts had gotten underway, and
new environmental assessments needed to be done, a healthy market for water and mud testing had evolved.
Around financing there's things like larger down payments, more expensive inspections (
including environmental assessments), mortgage broker fees, slightly higher mortgage rates, property managers.
What legislative and policy supports are needed for meaningful cumulative
environmental assessment at the individual development level?
Led the legal portion of
major environmental assessments and investigations of environmental compliance breaches including any corrective actions thus limiting corporate liability.
During its campaign, the Liberal party stated that
environmental assessments needed to become credible again and engage communities that are affected by proposals, including Indigenous communities.
Putting regulators in charge of
environmental assessment limits its planning potential and effectively reduces it to just another part of the project - level regulatory process.
While environmental assessments are important in their own right, we always focus on the ultimate goal of ensuring that government's constitutional obligations to our clients are fulfilled.
He has participated in
environmental assessments for many proposed wind energy generating facilities across Ontario and has helped develop, implement, and monitor mitigation measures to minimize environmental impacts of wind power projects.
HAZELTON — A federal
environmental assessment report that concluded the proposed New Prosperity open - pit mine would have significant adverse effects for the Tsilhqot» in is a condemnation of the B.C. Liberals approach to Aboriginal rights and title, says Stikine MLA Doug...
One option is to invite — or require — the NEB's general participation
in environmental assessments of proposals that are also within the NEB's jurisdiction, to provide the reviewing body with advice and recommendations.
The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for
environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.
According to Inside Climate News, the Environmental Protection Agency, which plays an important role in rating the performance of other agencies in performing
environmental assessments under NEPA, has repeatedly urged the State Department to focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how to offset them if Keystone were to get the green light.
Her role in Scenic Hudson's groundbreaking lawsuit is considered the cornerstone of this country's seminal environmental statute, the National Environmental Policy Act, which
requires environmental assessments of major projects.
Stantec has also been the consultant of record for
environmental assessments done by many wind power developers hoping for approval of projects in Ontario.
For example, next generation
environmental assessment laws in Canada can and should require higher level regional and strategic assessment and planning before project level assessments occur.
Environmental assessments which attempt to incorporate components of consultation or justification do not relieve the Crown from meeting its constitutional duties to aboriginal communities.
These brazen proposals fly in the face of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) recently
completed environmental assessment of offshore drilling that informed the 2017 - 2022 Oil & Gas Leasing Program.
Donations continued over the summer of 2015, leading up to the inevitable rubber stamp approval of Woodfibre LNG's
environmental assessment certificate by Ministers Coleman and Polak.
Canada has a once - in - decades opportunity to implement a next -
generation environmental assessment regime that could result in processes and decisions that work not only for communities, but also for the environment.
All Federal
environmental assessment regimes prior to CEAA 2012 relied upon a triggering mechanism that placed the finding of a Federal ground of jurisdiction at the beginning of the process.
The new rules also eliminate the need to
submit environmental assessments just because a would - be facility will sit in a floodplain, so long as «certain conditions» are met.
The Pacific NorthWest LNG Project received federal
environmental assessment approval in September 2016, subject to over 190 legally - binding conditions to be fulfilled by the proponent throughout the life of the project.
«It is well known that in United Kingdom court proceedings are not cheap» — a masterly understatement opening this opinion from our pictured AG to the CJEU about whether the UK system on legal costs complies with the obligation now in two EU Directives
about environmental assessment and pollution control.
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