Project Impact Assessments
Triggering and Coverage
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This chapter focuses on two questions. First: how effectively are the purposes of the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) likely to be met given the triggering process and coverage of projects under the IAA and its regulations? Second: do the triggering and coverage provisions facilitate its use in practice in addressing the acknowledged crises of climate change and biodiversity loss? This chapter addresses the process of triggering of projects for impact assessment under the IAA, considering how impact assessments are triggered and how the triggering process under the IAA differs from previous laws.
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Contributors
Stephen Hazell
Stephen Hazell is emeritus general counsel with Nature Canada, and president of Ecovision, a consultancy. Stephen served as Nature Canada’s director of policy and general counsel, among other capacities, from 2012 to 2019. He was executive director of Sierra Club Canada (2006–2009) and of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (2000–2003). He served as director of legislative and regulatory affairs at the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, developing the regulations for the implementation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. He has also served as adjunct professor in environmental law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Stephen holds a master of science degree in plant ecology from the University of Toronto and a law degree from Queen’s University. He has written numerous scholarly articles, as well as Canada v. The Environment, his 1999 book on federal environmental assessment law and policy.
