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Submission to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada: One Project, One Review – Comments on the Co-operation Agreement between Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada
This submission reflects and builds on a submission by a group of environmental non-profit organizations, including ECEL, to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s (the “Agency”) on its consultation paper, “‘One Project, One Review’: Cooperation Agreements for the Assessment of Major Projects” (the “Joint Submission”), and submissions ECEL has made on draft cooperation agreements between the government of Canada and the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island
Backgrounder: How Members of the Public Can Contribute to the Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Newfoundland and Labrador
This backgrounder presents information that was delivered in workshops in Newfoundland and Labrador in the autumn of 2025, providing an overview of how members of the public can contribute to the enforcement of environmental laws in the province.
Backgrounder: How Environmental Laws Are Made and Changed in Newfoundland and Labrador
This backgrounder presents information that was delivered in workshops in Newfoundland and Labrador in the autumn of 2025, providing an overview of how environmental laws are made and changed in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Comments on the 2022-23 Progress Report for the Follow-up Program of the Regional Assessment of Offshore Oil and Gas Exploratory Drilling East of NL
While we remain committed to our previous comments and submissions on the Regional Assessment and the subsequent Ministerial Regulations, and we do not endorse the outcomes of the Regional Assessment, we believe that ongoing dialogue, communication, and engagement are important pillars on which to improve our collective understanding of the environmental impacts in the offshore environment and to strengthen the laws protecting the marine ecosystems upon which we all depend. We are also aware that this may be one of the last opportunities to shape decision-making related to offshore exploratory oil and gas activities in the Regional Assessment study area. Therefore, we provide the following comments on the 2022-23 Progress Report.
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