B.C. Court: No Abuse of Water Approvals for Fracking
Because fracking consumes a huge amount of water, Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) and the Sierra Club of B.C. recently challenged how the B.C. government grants water use approvals to oil and gas companies. The government gives a series of short term approvals for fracking, freque…
View the post titled B.C. Court: No Abuse of Water Approvals for FrackingMore on Giant Mine remediation environmental assessment
Giant Mine remediation illustrates one of many ways that current environmental assessment processes for major projects raise public expectations that they cannot meet.
View the post titled More on Giant Mine remediation environmental assessmentModernization of Approvals a big step in the right direction
The Ministry of the Environment’s Modernization of Approvals process is starting to make a real difference: kudos to Marcia Wallace, Doris Dumais and the others involved. It still takes far too long to get many kinds of Environmental Compliance Approvals (often well over a year), but t…
View the post titled Modernization of Approvals a big step in the right directionFirst "permit by rule" approval sectors
Ontario’s new environmental approvals system is proposed to have two streams: a detailed Approvals Process (to be called Environmental Compliance Approval) for more complex situations, similar to the current certificates of approval. In this stream, applications for activities outside …
View the post titled First "permit by rule" approval sectorsApprovals Reform gets closer
For most businesses that need new or amended approvals, these changes probably cannot come quickly enough. But the transition period could be painful.
View the post titled Approvals Reform gets closerApproval process a "vortex of misery"
Debly sued the Ministry of the Environment for $2,322,907.91, for regulatory negligence, negligent investigation, and misrepresentation.
Anyone who has languished in "Approvals hell" may feel a glimmer of sympathy for the Debly family.
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