The Failure of Environmental Assessment in Canada (Andrew Nikiforuk, January 1997)
This 1997 report by Andrew Nikiforuk, commissioned by the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, critically examines the failures of federal environmental assessment in Canada. The document argues that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) has become a flawed, politically discretionary process that violates basic EA principles, using the BHP diamond mine in the Northwest Territories as a primary case study of systemic failures in assessment rigor, independence, and compliance.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, Andrew Nikiforuk, Sierra Club of Canada, WWF Canada, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Mining Association of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Environment Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, BHP, Inco Limited, Voisey's Bay Nickel Company, Cardinal River Coals, Sunpine Forest Products, Export Development Corporation
- Locations
- Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Geological Province, Ekati Diamond Mine, Mackenzie Valley, Lancaster Sound, Beaufort Sea, Fraser River basin, Voisey's Bay, Labrador, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Arctic, Nunavut, Quebec, New Brunswick, Bay of Fundy, Rocky Mountains, China
- Parameters
- environmental assessment, water quality, fish habitat, caribou, cumulative effects, baseline ecological data, biodiversity, waste rock, tailings, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development, traditional knowledge, impact benefit agreements, mining impacts, pipeline impacts, coal mining, nuclear waste disposal, aquatic organisms, fescue grasslands, wildlife surveys
- Pages
- 51
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