Liberals unveil overhaul of environmental legislation

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/po ... e37899033/

The Liberal government has unveiled its plan to overhaul the assessment process for major resource projects, saying added environmental protections are needed to restore public trust in Ottawa's approval of controversial pipelines, mines and hydro dams.

In the midst of a battle between British Columbia and Alberta over a pipeline expansion project, Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna tabled legislation on Thursday that aims to increase protection for the environment and Indigenous rights while providing greater timeliness and certainty for businesses.

Industry officials said the legislation appears to erect new hurdles for proposals, while environmental groups said it falls short by not clearly ruling out projects that would have significant adverse environmental effects.

In news conferences across the country, Liberal ministers defended the long-promised legislation, which will put one agency in charge of reviewing major resource projects and downgrade the role of the Calgary-based National Energy Board, which environmentalists often accused of having a pro-industry bias.

The legislation will reverse many changes the Conservative government adopted in 2012 to speed up approvals of pipelines and other resource projects. It would set timelines that include a limit of 600 days to review the most controversial projects.

Westerners, you're gonna get fucked.. again.

Finishing Daady's work.

I hear you loud and clear Beav. Industry bad, killing babies good.

Oh, yes. Alberta and Saskatchewan are going to get fucked. Hard. Maybe its time for us to take a page from Quebec's playbook and call for a referendum on our Sovereignty. Make it clear to Ottawa we're tired of being seen as the "ATM" of Canada.

I've read the Bill, and I'm wondering which part you think is going to screw Alberta and Saskatchewan so badly?

You've read all 341 pages? Interesting. It's tilted against Oil and Gas. It'll make it harder to get Canadian Oil on to the world market.

Ass To Mouth?

ATM as in the provinces Ontario and Quebec pillages for the money to fund their social programs.

a lot of it. It's not really markedly different from the previous Act. It actually shortens review times. It's BC that's fucking up Kinder Morgan right now, not the feds.

They all work for the same league.

The media-whores will paint it as RedTam versus BlueTeam to distract.

Misconceptions and ignorance abound.

1) Ontario doesn’t receive equalization payments
2) Equalization program is federal government program spending that comes from federal general tax revenues not some special levy against “have” provinces in otherwords in comes from the federal taxes that all Canadians pay anyway. An end to Equalization would not result in any tax cuts

3) Ontario is and always has been the largest economy in Canada therefore the largest overall contributor to federal revenues and therefore to transfer payments.

4) Saskatchewan has always been a “have not” province in recept of equalization payments for its entire existence up until 2009

^ more distraction after the 1st attempt is exposed