ERS215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deferral, Cape Breton Island, Non-Renewable Resource

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environment and Resource Studies
• Course: ERS215
• Professor: Dan Mc Carthy

Document Summary

Anticipating environmental effects in the planning and approval as well as implementation of potentially important undertakings. Develop a culture of attention to environmental considerations. Stage 1: reactive local pollution control, technical solutions, closed negotiations. Stage 2: pre-licensing impacts assessment, still biophysical and technical, some transparency. Stage 3: integrated social/ ecological assessment of alternatives with public reviews. Stage 4; sustainability-based assessment at strategic and project levels, recognizing cumulative and global effects, with public engagement and precaution, harmonized and designed for high efficiency. Major gutting of environmental assessment law at the federal level: elimination of most small project assessments, deferral to the provinces and territories for many larger project assessments. Incorporate environmental along with economic, technical and political factors in planning undertakings. Make a positive contribution to sustainability: through assess undertakings individually or collectively, also through the ea process (e. g. education and capacity building) Included (buried) in a budget implementation bill, passed june 2012, in force july 2012.