The Senate on Thursday night passed controversial legislation that overhauls the environmental review process, a bill that is likely to draw court challenges and remain a topic of discussion as campaigning for the upcoming federal election heats up.
To that end, it creates new requirements for public consultation including on climate change, gender and other issues. But it also has broader consequences, including the creation of a national Impact Assessment Agency that will oversee project evaluations. The centre of opposition to the bill has been the oil and gas industry in Alberta, where Premier Jason Kenney said on Friday he would file a court challenge to the law, calling it a violation of provinces’ constitutional right to control the development of natural resources.
The Liberals rejected most of his organization’s suggested amendments, leaving him feeling like their concerns had been “glossed over,” said Bloomer. Chris Bloomer, CEO, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association Still, he said it is difficult to point to specific problems with C-69, and instead said that the legislation has too many vague clauses and elements. That will end up injecting uncertainty into the environmental review process, which will deter investment in pipeline projects in Canada, said Bloomer.
Unlike what a lot of opponents would have you believe, it’s not earth shattering, it’s not a whole new approach
No ban on the seaway or eastern Canada No Canada east pipeline ,we in BC pay the highest carbon tax in the world and get treated like shit by the neo liberals
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