Provincial Environmental Assessment Process
- Legislative Overview
- The Environmental Assessment Act (the "EAA")
- The Project
- Reviewable Project Regulation
Review of the Environmental Assessment Act
- The History
- The EAA provides a mechanism for reviewing major impacts to assess their potential impacts.
- The assessment process also ensures that the issues and concerns of the public, First Nations, communities and government agencies are considered
- The current version has been in force since 2010.
- Reviewable Projects Regulation
370/2002
- A "reviewable project"
means a project that is within a category of projects prescribed
under section 5 or that is designated by the minister under section
6 or the executive director under section 7, and includes:
- the facilities at the main site of the project
- any off-site facilities related to the project that the executive director or the minister may designate, and
- any activities related to the project that the executive director or the minister must designate
- A "reviewable project"
means a project that is within a category of projects prescribed
under section 5 or that is designated by the minister under section
6 or the executive director under section 7, and includes:
Table 6 – Mine Projects
- S.6 Minister's Power to Designate
if:
- The minister is satisfied that the project may have a significant adverse environmental, economic, social, heritage or health effect and that the designation is in the public interest
- The minister believes on reasonable grounds that the project is not substantially started at the time of designation
- Canadian Environmental Assessment
Act
- Federal Overlap
From Application to Project Approval
- Scope
- "Project" means any
- activity that has or may have adverse effects, or
- construction, operation, modification, dismantling or abandonment of a physical work
- "Project" means any
- Section 10: Determining the
need for assessment
- The Executive Director by order
may
- refer a reviewable project to the minister for a determination under s. 14,
- if the reviewable project will not have a significant adverse environmental, economic, social, heritage or health effect, may determine that an environmental assessment certificate is not required
- if the reviewable project may have a significant adverse environmental, economic, social, heritage or health effect, may determine that an environmental assessment is required
- The Executive Director by order
may
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