ES 461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Enbridge

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ES 461
• Professor: Sean B.

Document Summary

Home to natural gas development, ranch activity, important to first nations. Baseline assessment of biological, physical, economic value of the region. The res set out to provide strategic recommendations in the form of a management plan to guide human activities so that the ecological integrity of the area could be maintained while economic benefits are realized. Sea: not done very often in canada, often isn"t done very well. Sea has fallen short of its potential. In bc, there can be sea but it is rarely used. Bc eao: pre-application stage and the application review. Canada: ea reviewed by agency or by a review panel. Review panel = group of experts (typically 3 people experts in related fields. 2 processes in bc and canada follow prescribed theory of ea. Multi-jurisdictional ea (crossing from one province to another, in the ocean required dfo) Harmonization: trying to get the 2 frameworks to have some kind of coordination.