Sentences with phrase «environmental assessment»

Finally, having regulators be responsible authorities can lead to divergence in environmental assessment processes and decision - making across different project types.

In our submissions to the federal environmental assessment review panel we have made detailed recommendations about how this could be done.

European legislation on environmental assessment and habitats has had a very significant influence on planning and environmental law in this country.

Compliance managers in fulfilling their role conduct environmental assessments to ensure environmental standards are upheld.

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.

This is problematic because environmental assessment has always been and continues to be understood as a planning tool, not as an end in itself.

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.

This includes overseeing environmental assessments prior to the sale or purchase of large real estate portfolios and the implementation of remediation plans.

What environmental assessment and licensing decisions should be supported by written reasons?

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.

Through the various environmental assessments the project was required to pass, many estimates of the emissions from the project are available.

Borrowers will have to pay for all costs associated with the lender's due diligence on collateral — this may include attorney's fees, appraisals environmental assessments, etc..

He and his team hope to advance a research agenda aimed at better environmental assessment and planning for those corridors that do move forward.

This includes strictly adhering to all local laws and undertaking rigorous environmental assessment processes.

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.

Environmental assessment hearings for mining development across the territory are also happening.

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.

Responsible for examining client projects and developing environmental assessment models that were used to plan each project stage.

Shopping center developers, for example, often jump through hoops to obtain environmental assessments, title insurance and appraisals.

And, of course, none of the officials who will, one day, undertake federal environmental assessments have been named.

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.

Consistency and fairness favours one responsible authority for environmental assessments of proposals of all types.

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.

BREEAM is the world's leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings.

EPA cited these concerns in an official critique to the State Department's latest draft environmental assessment on Keystone.

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.

The Generation Project was released from environmental assessment but its construction had not yet been sanctioned.

Environmental assessments which attempt to incorporate components of consultation or justification do not relieve the Crown from meeting its constitutional duties to aboriginal communities.

Gillian also regularly works on environmental assessment reviews as well as other federal and provincial regulatory review processes.

State Department environmental assessment report is leaving room here with opening up a 45 - day comment period.

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.

BC's local governments called for a full environmental assessment at last year's Union of BC Municipalities conference.

George Heyman, Sierra Club executive director: «Ms. Clark was part of the B.C. Liberal government which gutted our provincial environmental assessment process a decade ago.

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.

We will make environmental assessments credible again.

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.