Environmental law reform is precisely what industry needs now

Regardless of what you think of the Trans Mountain project, no one wins when projects spend years in legal limbo. The federal energy regulator needs an overhaul.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna announces Bill C-69 at a press conference at the National Press Theatre on Feb. 8. The bill, now in the Senate, would transform the federal environmental assessment process, if passed.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NICHOLE DUSYK

September 19, 2018

In the wake of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Aug. 30 decision overturning the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, one fact is clear: Canada’s system for reviewing new industrial projects is not working for anyone. Regardless of what you think of the Trans Mountain project, no one...

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