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Title: Ottawa restores Fisheries Act measures �gutted� by Harper
Category: Environmental
Posted By: BeaverFever
Date: 2018-02-06 17:59:32
Canadian

[BeaverFever]

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The changes are largely intended to replace protective measures that had been removed, with little transparency or debate, through the Stephen Harper government�s omnibus budget bills.


The government plans to increases funding to Fisheries and Oceans by $284 million to allow for things like the hiring of additional front-line fisheries officers.

Some of the controversy over pipelines and the now-defunct Pacific NorthWest LNG project was exacerbated by the weakening of the Fisheries Act.

�They stripped most of these basic protections and cut the associated funding necessary to properly enforce them,� LeBlanc said.

The amendments restore the safeguards against �harmful alteration, disruption or destruction� (HADD) that had been �gutted� from the Fisheries Act, said West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL)

More good news for Mother Nature

OTOH, he’s championing Trans-mountain pipeline, probably in a cynical move to bolster the left/weaken the right in Alberta. There is no viable provincial Liberal Party in Alberta so Notley would be his natural ally. I wonder if this environmental initiative isn’t really meant to try and help move the pipeline forward.

[DrCaleb]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I wonder if this environmental initiative isn’t really meant to try and help move the pipeline forward.

How would a Fisheries bill bolster land locked Alberta?

[maldonsfecht]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I wonder if this environmental initiative isn’t really meant to try and help move the pipeline forward.

How would a Fisheries bill bolster land locked Alberta?

It includes freshwater... it's quite a broad and powerful bit of legislation...

you can't even ford a brook in a vehicle on a military base without an environmental impact study in advance

[BeaverFever]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I wonder if this environmental initiative isn’t really meant to try and help move the pipeline forward.

How would a Fisheries bill bolster land locked Alberta?

What you never heard of prairie oysters???

Looks like I got ahead of myself, the fisheries act reforms are part of larger post-Harper policy package to re-regulate various environmental laws that were guttteed by the previous government.

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Trudeau government poised to overhaul environmental assessment process on energy projects like pipelines

Legislation this week expected to mean changes to National Energy Board

Elizabeth Thompson · Senior Reporter · CBC News
February 5, 2018

The Trudeau government is poised to introduce legislation this week to overhaul the way the federal government does environmental assessments on major energy projects like pipelines.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is to table a bill in coming days to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, as well as amend the Navigation Protection Act. On Tuesday, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc is to table a second bill to amend the Fisheries Act.

Speaking to reporters Monday, McKenna said the government has worked for 14 months on its environmental assessment legislation...

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/tr ... -1.4519461

[herbie]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I wonder if this environmental initiative isn’t really meant to try and help move the pipeline forward.

How would a Fisheries bill bolster land locked Alberta?

Step forward from the last gov't pushing TWO pipelines while gutting environmental regs and closing Coast Guard bases.
Horgan's got to appear to do his best to fight against Kinder Morgan.
Notley's got to appear to do her best to fight for the pipeline.
Turdeau's going to end up with shit on his face when he tells Horgan marine safety is federal... but he's gotta toss some environmental goodies out even though that won't help