Sentences with phrase «federal environmental approval»

Not exact matches

The expansion has obtained both federal and regulatory approval and has passed an environmental assessment under British Columbia incumbent Liberal Party.

The project will still face at least National Energy Board approval, but more likely a federal joint review panel including both the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the National Energy Board, similar to the proceedings currently underway for the Northern Gateway Pipeline.

I should stress that Voser did not wade in on Canadian politics, and did say he supports the federal government's push to streamline environmental approval processes for energy projects.

Prentice cited the federal loan guarantee for Newfoundland's Lower Churchill River hydroelectric project as «a wise instrument of industrial policy,» and called for governments to «expedite the regulatory and environmental approval processes for megaprojects.»

«Our next steps include finalising commercial arrangements for gas supply, securing gas pipeline financing support with the Federal Government, obtaining environmental and land access approvals, and developing detailed refinery conversion plans,» Mr Biswas said.

But in a sharply worded letter sent Wednesday, an official from the federal Environmental Protection Agency cautioned the loan has not yet received federal approval.

Overall, the ABO's report found the Environmental Facilities Corp. engaged in little public discussion about the circumstances of the loan or sought to determine whether there were any assurances its approval met federal regulations and guidelines.

It says the state Department of Environmental Conservation has held up approval of a water quality permit for the pipeline for so long that it is in violation of two federal laws.

Projects should have received all Federal, State and local permits and approvals, including completion of all National Environmental Policy Act («NEPA») analysis, at the time the application is submitted.

Projects should have received or have substantially completed all Federal, State and local permits and approvals, including National Environmental Policy Act («NEPA») analysis, at the time the application is submitted.

Following the 2012 approval, environmental groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council filed suit in San Francisco arguing that the federal administration had approved emissions at sound levels that violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, reports SF Gate.

Federal Government approval under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act was received in late June 2015.

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

A greenhouse trigger should be added to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and the federal government's approval powers under the Act should not be delegated to the states.

Because it crosses state lines, it requires approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which released an environmental assessment of the project at the end of September.

Canada is currently in the process of reviewing environmental acts, regulatory processes, and the National Energy Board (a federal regulatory body), with the intent of restoring lost environmental protections and public trust in major project approvals.

It's worth noting here that the administration is, in fact, implementing something like this, making climate a key part of federal project assessment and approval under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice has been staunchly opposed to the project and represented a coalition of groups — Riverkeeper, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Clean Air Council, Delaware - Otsego Audubon Society, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and the Pennsylvania and Atlantic chapters of Sierra Club — in pipeline approval proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC.)

Requires FERC to lead efforts to coordinate environmental reviews and approvals for proposed projects in states in the Western Interconnection and requires the Department of the Interior to assume such lead with respect to federal land.

A further drawback is that focusing on the State Department and White House ignores the Interior Department, Fish & Wildlife Service, Environmental Protection Agency and many other federal and state regulatory and judicial agencies and processes that will still stand in the way of final project approval, and will likely take years to navigate.

Last October the Sierra Club and two other environmental groups sued Kern County over its approval of a 300 - megawatt NextEra Energy Resources wind farm that state and federal officials warn poses a high risk to condors (2).

Within months, Secretary Salazar pushed through clarification of jurisdictional disputes between the MMS and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in an effort to simplify the complex labyrinth of environmental and multi-agency procedures that make offshore wind approval an onerous seven - to - nine - year process.

The BLM's approval of the Ivanpah Project triggered yet another lawsuit, this one from the Western Watersheds Project over the federal government's alleged failure to comply with environmental laws in the California Desert Conservation Area.

The federal Conservatives have dramatically narrowed Canada's environmental laws, in a concerted effort to force through approval of oil pipelines, to get Alberta's bitumen to international markets.

Most readers will know that this was Taseko's second attempt to secure federal approval for its proposed mine and that the federal review panel that conducted the second environmental assessment (EA) concluded that, like the original Prosperity project, it too was likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects (SAEEs)(for more on the panel's report, see my previous post here)...

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