In major reversal, Jason Kenney now says Alberta can live with amended C-69 environmental assessment bill
By John Paul Tasker · CBC News
The bill to overhaul Canada's environmental assessment process is seen by many as anti-pipeline
Image: Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Kenney says Alberta will accept Bill C-69 but only if the government accepts all the amendments made last week by the Senate's energy committee.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the leaders of the three other provincial parties are offering an olive branch to the Trudeau government on C-69, saying they're now prepared to accept the controversial overhaul of Canada's environmental assessment process — as long as the Senate's amendments are part of it.
The Senate's energy committee last week passed more than 180 amendments that would, among other things, limit the environment minister's ability to interfere in the regulatory process and stop and start project timelines.
The committee also passed amendments to curb public participation in the project review process to ensure more timely decisions, and backed changes that would solidify the role of the offshore petroleum boards in the approvals process.
Opinion:
Amendments that allow oil companies to do what they want without accountability.
Don't stop where the ink does.
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