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Submission on the Draft Terms of Reference for the Regional Assessment of Oil and Gas Exploratory Drilling in the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Area
Ideally, RAs will be used to contribute regional-scale cumulative effects assessments and enhance our collective understanding of how projects and activities contribute to long-term sustainability in the face of the climate emergency, extinction-level biodiversity loss, and global pollution. Used appropriately and effectively, regional assessment is a valuable—even essential—tool to facilitate early planning, consultation, engagement, and scientific study, which will make future, project-level planning and assessment processes more rigorous, consistent, and predictable.
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Bill C-39 is 232 pages long and amends 18 statutes and four regulations, enacts a new law and repeals a law. It is complex and will have far-reaching implications related to the environment, public health and safety, workers rights and trade and transportation. Its many provisions require careful, expert scrutiny that cannot be adequately addressed through a single, newly formed committee alone.
Le droit de la personne à un environnement sain est aussi parfois appelé « droit environnemental ». Les droits environnementaux protègent le droit d’une personne de vivre dans un environnement sain. Cela peut comprendre le droit de boire de l’eau potable, de respirer un air pur et de vivre dans un milieu où la biodiversité est en santé
Les droits environnementaux peuvent contribuer à faire évoluer la prise de décisions, en passant de la gestion de la pollution à la protection de la santé humaine et de celle des écosystèmes. Le Nouveau-Brunswick ne protège pas encore, dans ses lois provinciales, le droit des Néo-Brunswickois à un environnement sain, mais de nombreuses personnes militent pour que notre gouvernement franchisse cette étape.