Category: Impact Assessment Act

Canada’s Supreme Court to Decide Provincial Challenge to Environmental Impact Law

The federal government and several provinces are in a tug of war over the power to regulate natural resource and development projects. Canada’s Supreme Court heard two days of testimony on March 21 and 22 to help it decide if Ottawa’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) is constitutional. The law, known as Bill C-69 before it…


Hearings Begin Before Supreme Court on Federal Environmental Impact Assessment Law

Federal lawyers defended the government’s Impact Assessment Act in the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday as a two-day hearing started to determine the future of how the country weighs the environmental costs of economic development. Several of the five-member panel of justices hearing the appeal of an Alberta decision that found the act unconstitutional…