‘It’s the question of whether we want to continue in the status quo’: stakeholders worry environmental assessment process could lead to cut corners

The Environmental Assessment Processes Review looks to restore trust in assessments after the former Conservative government's widely criticized Environmental Assessment Act was passed in 2012.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, pictured at an announcement in Ottawa in October, was tasked with reviewing Canadian environmental assessment processes in her mandate letter. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

December 13, 2017

Industry associations and environmental groups are mostly backing the increased government collaboration recommended as part of a new environmental assessment process, though some worry that cutting out the individual steps could lead to cutting corners.

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