Sentences with phrase «which federal environmental assessment»
Yet, concerns have arisen about the extent to which Federal environmental assessment processes have overstepped Constitutional boundaries into matters which are regulated across the country at the Provincial level.
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«Our organization applauds the Federal Government for approving this project, which has undergone a comprehensive scientific and technical assessment and is subject to conditions that will ensure it is built to the highest safety and environmental standards.»
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an environmental assessment on Monday for the Millennium pipeline, which allows the project to move forward.
(Sec. 1314) Amends MAP - 21 to require inflation adjustments to specified dollar amounts indicating the maximum federal assistance to certain federal - aid highway projects which must be categorically excluded from the requirements relating to environmental assessments or environmental impact statements.
Draft guidance to federal agencies on environmental impact assessment of proposed federal actions such as energy development permits, which the White House has allowed to languish for four years, could move the system toward analyzing specific proposed projects within a... Continue reading →
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.
More broadly, draft White House guidance to federal agencies on environmental impact assessment of proposed federal actions such as energy development permits, which has languished for four years, could move the system toward analyzing specific proposed projects within a larger context of cumulative global warming impacts.
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.
At this time, private developments on Provincial Crown land which are subject to Provincial environmental assessment and control must undergo the screening process even if no Federal permits or other actions will be required.
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.
The Constitutional basis for Federal environmental assessment was addressed in Friends of the Oldman River Society v. Canada (Minister of Transport), [1992] S.C.J. No. 1 (Oldman River), which affirmed the constitutionality of the Guidelines Order, the predecessor to CEAA.