Title
WCS Canada Comments - Environmental Assessment Review - December 2016
Author(s)
Cheryl Chetkiewicz
Published
2016
Publisher
[Correspondence]
Abstract
In June, 2016 the Government of Canada announced the launch of a comprehensive review of federal environmental assessment processes associated with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012) and appointed an expert panel to lead this review. WCS Canada submitted made two separate submissions, expressing particular concerns about the process and outcomes of environmental assessment in the context of welcoming new development like major mines and associated infrastructure, into remote, intact regions in the north. We are also placing specific focus on the role of scientific information and expertise in environmental assessment (EA), in an effort to address the provision in the EA Expert Review Panel’s terms of reference that it “provide recommendations on how to ensure environmental decisions are based on science, fact and evidence”.
Full Citation
[Correspondence] Chetkiewicz, Cheryl (2016). Submission to the Expert Panel for the Review of Environmental Assessment Processes (Federal)
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