ENVS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Precautionary Principle, Emera, Naivety
9 Dec 2017
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5% of canada"s ghg emissions (29 mt to up to 175 mt by 2030: sox and nox, water quality/quantity, human health aboriginal health issues, ecosystem impacts. Won"t the environmental issues be addressed by compliance with regulatory standards: discretion, complexity, context-specific, cumulative impacts. Transformative: social learning, eia processes aid bureaucratic cognitive reform, accepts normative orientation, i. e. purposes of ceaa. Legitimacy of outcomes related to substance, as well as process. In ontario, environmental assessment act: applies to public sector projects. Federal ceaa: applies to components of the environment under federal jurisdiction, aquatic species/fish, migratory birds. Impacts on aboriginal peoples: overlap oldman river society addresses constitutional issues. Joint (fed/prov) ea processes common (i. e. kearl oil sands) Purposes of ceaa: protect the components of the environment, ensure projects under this act are considered in a careful and precautionary manner to avoid significant adverse effects, coordinated action between federal and provincial governments. Elements of eia: application, restricted to physical activities and projects (not policies)
