CEAA – Checklist for Reform – ORA to WCEL
Download Full Document. 21 February 2012 West Coast Environmental Law 200 – 2006 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6J 2B3 E: jpaterson@wcel.org rachel_forbes@wcel.org Attention: Josh Paterson, Staff...
View ArticleStewardship group worries over Vermilion River project Federal environmental...
CBC Radio 1 – Morning North Interview – July 20, 2012.
View ArticleThe Government Thinks that Environmental Assessment Takes Way Too Long
The new Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012), which came into effect last month, allows the federal government to create mandatory timelines for assessments of even the largest and...
View ArticleOttawa blind to dangers of firing environmental scientists
Tom Muir – Mon Oct 29 2012 00:01:00 I read recently that the federal government signed a revised Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement with the United States. As a retiree of Environment Canada, with...
View ArticleORA SUPPORTS THE IDLE NO MORE PROTEST OVER GOVERNMENT OMNIBUS BILLS THAT HARM...
ORA supports the grassroots Idle No More protest by First Nations and other Canadians against the federal government’s Omnibus Bills C-38 and C-45 and all affected legislation which have threatened our...
View ArticleFeds systematically gut environmental protection
By Paul Hanley, Special to The StarPheonix December 18, 2012 Did the support of 24 per cent of the electorate on election day give the federal government a mandate for its radical project to gut...
View ArticleHardesty Rail Terminal Project – CEAA
ORA submits that this project could facilitate expansion of the tar sands, and increase Canada’s carbon pollution. We need an environmental assessment to look at this project’s effect on climate...
View ArticleDraft Terms of Reference for Expert Panel to review the CEAA
The Ontario Rivers Alliance has provided comments on the draft Terms of Reference for the Expert Panel that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change (Minister) will establish to review the...
View ArticlePanel Review of the Environmental Assessment Process – ORA Presentation
The Chair of the Ontario Rivers Alliance presented to the Expert Panel on the Review of the Environmental Assessment Process, on Thursday, 3 November 2016, in Sudbury: Download (PDF, Unknown) The...
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NEB Modernization Review – ORA Submission
The NEB has proven to be an industry friendly structure aiming to support and promote energy markets for the oil and gas and pipeline industry – yet the NEB is also charged with regulating, approving,...
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A New Vision for Impact Assessment in Canada
Upon being sworn in, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change (the Minister) received a mandate letter from the Prime Minister to review the environmental assessment (EA) processes with...
View ArticleCOMMENTS ON BUILDING A COMMON GROUND, A NEW VISION FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN...
Upon being sworn in, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change (the Minister) received a mandate letter from the Prime Minister to review the environmental assessment (EA) processes with...
View ArticleReview of Environmental and Regulatory Processes – ORA Comments
There is little in this Discussion Paper that would rebuild trust in the federal environmental assessment or project approvals process. This proposal would leave the National Energy Board (NEB) in...
View ArticleORA Briefing Note on Bill C-69 – Impact Assessment Act
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View ArticleImpact Assessment Act – Project List, Information Requirements, Timelines
ORA has fully participated in the Canadian Environmental Assessment Process review and was very hopeful with this government’s promise to “rebuild public trust, protect the environment, advance...
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