¶ Published Friday, January 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
News today that MiningWatch Canada won its Supreme Court case concerning the Red Chris mine.
Interestingly, the Supreme Court ruled that the project can move forward because the BC government had already given it the go ahead. But environmentalists are nonetheless claiming victory because the Court also ruled that from now on the federal government [...]
¶ Published Thursday, October 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Businesses continue to be discouraged in the absence of any concrete steps towards unifying Canada’s patchwork of requirements for environmental assessments (EA). Overlapping responsibilities between provincial, territorial and federal levels of government, not to mention competing agencies at all levels, have predictably produced unbearable delays in the regulatory process. Making matters worse [...]
¶ Published Monday, April 20th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
In an attempt to ’stimulate’ the economy, the feds may have stirred the pot a little too much. Their removal of environmental assessment on infrastructure projects tied to stimulus has raised some questions. Though removing EA requirements will certainly speed up some projects, it will likely be taken advantage of by companies planning to build [...]
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