Marcanadian

The folks at Enbridge are going to have to take him aside and show him who's boss!

I'm not sure whether what the CBC said is true or not, but it is true at least that Cabinet will now have final approval powers for projects undergoing federal assessments, rather than the agency/board that carried out the assessment.

I have mixed feelings on the pipeline. I know the economic benefits are huge, but I don't think it's worth risking a massive environmental disaster, which due to its sensitive location, could be catastrophic. The record of Enbridge doesn't console me in the slightest. That being said, I was reading a CBC article today and I'll quote an intriguing part: The bold part worries me. What's the purpose of conducting an environmental assessment on a project if environmental reasons are not enough to reject it? Does anyone know where I can find the legislation or regulations that describe for what reasons a project can be rejected, and by whom? I was reading through the new 2012 CEAA, but it only referred to a 'decision-maker' (the Minister) releasing his/her decision on whether a project would have environmental risks, based on the review panel's report. Simply put, on what grounds can a review panel outright reject project approval; do they even have that power, or is it now up to Cabinet?