Environmental impact assessment : effects on corporate mega-project planning ...
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is intended to be a means of increasing the level of consideration of environmental factors in planning and decision-making. The ultimate objective of EIA is to prevent needless harmful environmental change resulting from human development activity. EIA, therefo...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0096131 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0096131 |
| Summary: | Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is intended to be a means of increasing the level of consideration of environmental factors in planning and decision-making. The ultimate objective of EIA is to prevent needless harmful environmental change resulting from human development activity. EIA, therefore, is a government review process aimed at development proposals from both the public and the private sectors. This study examines how the existence of EIA requirements has affected project planning by private corporations involved in large-scale resource developments. Two current resource developments in Canada are the Beaufort Sea Hydrocarbon Development and the Northeast Coal Development. The EIA processes being applied to these developments are, respectively, the federal Environmental Assessment and Review Process (EARP) and the British Columbia Coal Guidelines Review Process (CGRP). While the proponents of the two developments are given the responsibility for providing the information upon which the EIA's ... |
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