Title
WCS Canada Comments – Wataynikaneyap transmission line project requested exemption from the Far North Act – October 2018
Author(s)
Cheryl Chetkiewicz
Published
2018
Abstract
We provide comments in response to the recent request that the Wataynikaneyap transmission line project be exempted from section 12 of the Far North Act. This section of the Far North Act requires that there be a community based land use plan prior to the construction or expansion of a transmission line. WCS Canada has been engaged as an interested party in the consultation process of this project since 2013. We are concerned that while the environmental impact assessment remains incomplete any request for exemption is premature, that the impact assessment itself fails to acknowledge cumulative effects, and that the process by which the project could become exempt is unclear. We describe our concerns further herein.
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