Federal environmental assessment : Évaluations environnementales fédérales : aperçu de la législation et enjeux récents

Regulations were made in 1997,20 and the Agency has published at least two guides.21 Following the five-year review, the CEAA was amended in 2003 to create the role of the Federal Environmental Assessment Coordinator,22 and in 2005 a Cabinet Directive on Implementing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act was issued.23 LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT 5 PUBLICATION NO. [...] Some critics question whether substituted processes are sufficiently accessible to the public, and whether panel members evaluating a project under the substituted process are sufficiently impartial.30 2.4 SCOPING Early in the environmental assessment process, the responsible authority must determine the scope of the project for which an environmental assessment is to be conducted.31 For example, [...] In January 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada released a decision clarifying that the project, as proposed by the proponent, determined the assessment track (screening or comprehensive study).34 Once the track was determined, the responsible authority or the minister had the discretion to enlarge but not narrow the scope of the project subject to an environmental assessment. [...] Other sections were amended or added36 to eliminate some aspects of the responsible authority’s duty to ensure public consultation during the planning stages of a comprehensive study, particularly regarding the study’s scope.37 2.5 CUMULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS The term cumulative environmental effects refers to the incremental effects of a project on the environment in combination with the eff [...] Pursuant to the Cabinet Directive, the MPMO has established the MPMO Tracker, a monitoring and tracking system to allow the public to monitor the progress of any specific major resource project through the regulatory system.