It is extremely upsetting that Bill 197 was passed with zero opportunity for meaningful public input. A Conservative majority does not trump the importance of meaningful public input and the Ontario government must adhere to its obligations under the Environmental Bill of Rights.
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Processes that ensure environmental safety and Indigenous rights are not “red tape.” I want to live in a province that has robust, clear, predictable, participatory environmental assessment processes that take context and complexity into consideration.
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The Ontario government does not have a mandate to avoid public consultation, especially when it comes to environmental assessment. The result will be to dilute environmental protections through disastrous acts like this one.
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The Environmental Assessment Act should be automatically applied to all major public and private sector undertakings as before, not just a select few as is being proposed here.
The well being of the land and it's indigenous peoples should be a primary consideration - raping the land of it's resources and displacing indigenous people and disrespecting the treaties and their way of life should be of great concern to everyone - the land has taken hundreds of years to become i
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All mining projects and major mine-related infrastructure should be subject to comprehensive environmental assessment due to their size, potential risks to the environment and human health, and liabilities associated with the long-term storage of mining waste.
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Everything and everyone has been detrimentally affected by the pandemic. It is the responsibility of each person - especially our government leaders - to take any and every positive action possible to protect each other and our environment. Bill 197 does not do this.
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RCCAO Submission re
Proposed Comprehensive Environmental Assessment Project List – (Projects Subject to Part II.3 of the Environmental Assessment Act)
ERO number 019-2377 August 2020
November 7, 2020
1. INTRODUCTION
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The indigenous people of Canada must be informed on use of their land. The colonial powers of Canada and seekers of capital should not be able to exercise their political power unchecked.
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The proposal to create a Project List for EA in Ontario that effectively restricts and creates uncertainty on how the EAA is applied if at all to specific undertakings deemed medium impact, and others such as mining developments, landfills (under 100,000 cubic meters), quarries, pulp and paper mills
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As a new lawyer, I think that it is so important that the Environmental Assessment Act apply to all major public and private sector undertakings, including all mining projects and mine-related infrastructure.
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We live in an unprecedented time of climate change - our world is and will continue to change for the worse because of the way that the Western world has put extraction and profit over the health and wellbeing of the planet.
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The Environmental Assessment Act should be automatically applied to all major public and private sector undertakings as before, not just a select few as is being proposed here.
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