Feds’ sweeping, new environmental assessment bill keeps power in ministers’ hands, say observers
The bill to overhaul Canada’s approval process for resource projects leaves plenty of wiggle-room for the environment minister to make case-by-case decisions.
The government’s new Impact Assessment Act includes hundreds of pages detailing changes to the environmental assessment process in Canada, but keeps ultimate power over approving natural resource projects in the hands of the federal environment minister and her cabin...
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