The federal government is proposing giving authority to review interprovincial pipelines and transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects, to the Canada Energy Regulator instead of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.
The proposal, which will undergo a 30-day consultation process, would undo the move the Liberals made eight years ago to create the Impact Assessment Agency as a one-stop shop for all national project reviews.
The changes also would allow cabinet to decide whether a pipeline project is in the public interest before the review process is completed.
Ottawa is also planning on creating a Crown consultation hub within the Impact Assessment Agency to better co-ordinate efforts with Indigenous communities and provinces.
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It’s also looking to enact legislative changes to reduce review times for major projects down to one year.
The government introduced legislation a year ago to reduce review times for major projects from five years to two years.
— More to come…
If the Canadian Energy Regulator is as corrupt and thoroughly owned by the oil & gas industry as the Alberta Energy Regulator, this is really bad news.
Time to get these things done. Energy, mining, fishing, forestry ect. Lets quit talking and get something done. All of these social programs that Normal Canadian desires cant always be funded by dreams and wishes.
@ normal e strange. That’s above their pay grade. They understand freedom convoys, ostriches, big trucks, pipelines , oilers and hockey and church. The concept of air and water as the only thing that matters will never get through.
I hope this isn’t yet another excuse to undermine environmental concerns in favor of yet more profit. Well, you can’t eat or breathe profit. Neither can your grandkids.
Let’s face it, all projecs will be reviewed by the PMO for approval. It is part of Socialist economics. That office will pick the winner and losers based on the proposals social benefits, not profitability for Canada.
Endless talk, endless consultations, endless approvals and the end of capital ever flowing into this country. Unfortunately, this country is run by c#nts.
AB as usual you talk too much like my 4th removed by-mariage drunk uncle. Have another and go to bed.
@me…. Oil and gas fuel all those industries you listed ;) from operations to transporting the goods. Would be nice to employ more Canadians as well as supply the entire country from coast to coast with oil and gas. However if your province (or others) don’t want it, or to help us, fine…. Let AB start collecting our own taxes (Federal & Provincial) and take care of our citizens (People living and paying taxes in AB for a minimum of 10 years). Once we have paid for our stuff, and put money into the bank, perhaps we can think about sending a bit to Ottawa. Wouldn’t hurt me a bit if we sent nothing……..
Auto sector
Okay fellas… @me ….I guess we’ll take back our lumber then and you can build houses with popular trees! @ anonymous…your saying your bigger than lumber, fisheries, mining, potash, canola, maple syrup, bombardier, tourism?…. did I miss any?
LoL the liberal government continues to flip flop on their own policies of the last 11 years. Watching Ottawa scrambling yet doing nothing at the same time is getting tiresome. Canada is so broken
The Impact Assessment Agency is the only agency with a voice to identify and speak to issues that are ‘down the line’ and when these are identified it is up to our government to LISTEN and take the appropriate action. Shutting down the The I.A.A. is NOT a good move for anyone.
Lol i love seeing all the people seething and coping at everything the government does. People like you guys get mad if the conservatives or the liberals do anything at all. Can’t wait for the AB referendum to fail and the rest of canada can mock you fools like we mock the french for there referendum. 🤣
Hey Mr normal Canadian. Fact is alberta feeds you parasites so don’t bite the hand that feeds you fool.
What a disaster the Trudeau Liberals were. And Careny was a close advisor from 2020 – 2025. Now all of a sudden they like the Oil and Gas Industry?
war time footing, Get it done but faster and not sequentially but simultaneously, That is how Canada delivered 16.500 war planes to Allies in a couple of years during WWII>
Why not just shutdown the farce called the impact agency created by Trudeau and his eco nut environment minister?
Come for the Liberal hypocrisy, stay for the Jeff Mack crash out.
Normal Canadian – do some research and figure out what the energy sector contributes to the overall Canadian GDP. If you hate being able to pay for social programs by all means, scrap the energy sector.
I wonder if any conservatives realize there are OTHER industries OTHER than pipelines in the country?! You’re not the only ” victims/casualties ” here . It’s a shocker …. but you don’t contribute as much as you think you do.Just cause your the loudest…
Things must be desperate for the liberals. They’ve had to buy a few parliament seats to offset recent losses, and who knows how much that cost. Now they’re dropping the climate change scam.
Jeff Mack:
Polls say 30%.
Its ok, math isn’t for everyone.
Try This…
NO!
Canadian Natives before White culture.
Always!
Anonymous…
More % than the separatists! :)
They are still involving the natives. QUIT!
Pipelines bring money and jobs and is good for Canada as a whole. All others concerns are moot, always reduce the risk to as low as practical, but green zealots and FNs that live in poverty should not have a veto.
5% of the population should never have authority over the rest, particularly when that 5% is made up of 619 individual factions that cannot agree among themselves.
Will they disband the IAA, or continue to have tax dollars pay them to do nothing? Oh wait, we already pay our federal gov’t that accomplishes nothing.