Government to table bill Monday aimed at speeding up major project approvals
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will table a bill Monday to fast-track approvals for major projects.
The Building Canada Strong Act is expected to remove the responsibility for reviewing many big projects, such as pipelines and power transmission lines, from the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.
The federal government has said it has been told by industry that the level of expertise on energy projects that lived at the Canada Energy Regulator couldn’t be found at the Impact Assessment Agency.
Two discussion papers released in May also said Ottawa was looking to create so-called “economic zones.” Those zones would allow the federal cabinet to decide which activities would be allowed in them and give ministers the power to pre-approve projects.
