Sentences with phrase «environmental assessment process»

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

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

This opportunity is perhaps most pronounced in the reviews of federal environmental assessment processes and the National Energy Board (NEB).

Pelletier says she is «excited and honoured to have been provided the opportunity to contribute to the government's review of environmental assessment processes.»

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.

The Liberals were less emphatic during the campaign than the NDP, but they did promise to toughen the federal environmental assessment process for approving mega projects.

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, since Bill C - 38 in 2012, we have been labouring under a broken environmental assessment process.

Secretary Kerry no doubt knows that, earlier in the Keystone XL environmental assessment process, leading climate scientists sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to deny the permit.

Present environmental assessment processes do not meaningfully assess the potential for projects to negatively affect Aboriginal and Treaty rights;

In order for the federal government to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and ensure environmental assessment processes and decisions move Canada down the path of reconciliation, environmental assessments should be co-governed with Indigenous nations, which also requires the assessment authority to have a broad and flexible mandate.

This overlap has led some participants in the NEB modernization review to make recommendations focused on how to improve NEB - administered environmental assessment processes.

Environmental assessment processes led by the Provinces, the Federal Government or First Nations, ought to accord weight to these legal sources.

A minority Liberal government would likely have moved quickly to fulfill the promise of a new environmental assessment process, which would entail a considerable delay in any decision on Trans Mountain.

I intend to confine my comments to the Constitutional division of powers which must underpin Federal environmental assessment processes carried out in relation to private development on privately - owned or Provincial Crown land.

For practical purposes, a privately - owned and financed development to be carried out on Provincial Crown land was not subject to the Federal environmental assessment process unless it required a Federal permit, most often under the Fisheries Act.

Downstream Emissions in Canada's New Environmental Assessment «Climate Test» In late January 2016, Canada's federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and Minister of Natural Resources, Jim Carr, announced interim changes to environmental assessment processes as part of «efforts to restore public trust.»

Federal reviews of environmental assessment processes and the National Energy Board: The federal government recently announced several long - awaited reviews of environmental legislation including reviews of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA), the National Energy Board (NEB) by two independent panels.

They are acting as if they are in the midst of a federal or provincial environmental assessment process but they are not — they haven't even filed any detailed plans with the National Energy Board.

Lead counsel for the Dene Tha» First Nation in its successful challenge of the federal environmental assessment process for the Mackenzie Gas Project, which fundamentally altered the way in which governments approached consultation on environmental assessments.

In 2016, the government appointed two expert panels to review federal environmental assessment process and the NEB..

The province has formally requested that its environmental assessment process be permitted as a substitute for federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency's review process.

Has big money corrupted the environmental assessment process?

environmental assessment process and use it instead.»

The President also signed a memo ordering the Department of Commerce to come up with a plan for using American steel in the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, and further orders for the government to roll back the environmental assessment process to get decisions on projects made faster.

In that case, a NAFTA tribunal ruled 2 - 1 that an environmental assessment process, which resulted in a U.S. firm being denied a permit to dig a massive quarry in an ecologically sensitive region of Nova Scotia, violated the firm's NAFTA investor protections.

Victoria — Changes to the federal environmental assessment process, along with deep budget cuts, will weaken environmental protection in British Columbia say the B.C. New Democrats.

environmental assessment process, and yesterday's court decision affirms our position.»

New Democrat deputy environment critic Michael Sather noted the Liberals have gutted the environmental assessment process, creating uncertainty on the land base and a lack of trust in government's ability to protect the environment.

When Western financiers hesitated to fund the Kafue River project because of environmental concerns, the Chinese developer immediately stepped in, and urged Zambian authorities to cut the environmental assessment process short.

In Baker Lake, a proposed uranium mine called «Kiggavik» became the centre of controversy in the late 1980s and it was withdrawn from the environmental assessment process in 1990 after the community voted 90 per cent against uranium mining.

At what stages in the environmental assessment process is public participation most valuable?

Issue 14: Should unlicensed activities, and those licensed under other regulatory regimes, be brought into the environmental assessment process established under The Environment Act?

How would this change affect your participation in Manitoba's environmental assessment process?

How would these measures affect your participation in the environmental assessment process?

What provisions are needed to ensure that all aspects of a development and their aggregate effects are adequately addressed in the environmental assessment process?

How would these reforms affect your participation in the environmental assessment process?

Manitoba's Law Reform Commission is currently seeking input into potential reforms to the environmental assessment process that takes place pursuant to the provisions of The Environment Act.

Issue 1: Should The Environment Act be amended to establish more direct links between the environmental assessment process and principles and guidelines of sustainability provided in The Sustainable Development Act?

Although the review panel conducting the environmental assessment process could make recommendations which would minimize potential adverse effects of the project on asserted or established Aboriginal and treaty rights, it could not determine the nature and scope of Aboriginal rights, or whether the project infringes Treaty 8.

In the tennis match that is the government's review of its environmental assessment process, the ball is back in

Prime Minister Trudeau has mandated no fewer than five cabinet ministers (Environment and Climate Change, Natural Resources, Fisheries, Indigenous and Norther Affairs, and Science) with reviewing federal environmental assessment processes, with the aim of introducing «new, fair processes.»

They also made the environmental law rollbacks an election issue in 2015 and led the Prime Minister to direct his cabinet ministers to undertake the review of four major federal environmental laws, processes and bodies: the Fisheries Act, Navigation Protection Act, environmental assessment processes and the National Energy Board.

In November 2015, the Prime Minister mandated several Cabinet Ministers to review four of Canada's environmental laws and processes: the Fisheries Act, Navigation Protection Act, the National Energy Board, and federal environmental assessment processes.

In the tennis match that is the government's review of its environmental assessment process, the ball is back in the CBA's court — and the Association is calling a fault on the play.

The current Liberal Federal Government is moving full - swing in its promised amendments to the legislation governing the federal environmental assessment process and the environmental protection provisions related to the Federal Fisheries power.

The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada, said: «The idea to create this committee is based on input received from Indigenous peoples throughout the environmental assessment process to ensure protection of the environment through ongoing project monitoring and oversight.

According to a press release, «Panel members were selected based on their knowledge, experience and expertise relevant to federal environmental assessment processes.