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Port Hope and Port Granby Projects Press Release – January 13, 2012
The Port Hope Area Initiative Management Office (PHAI MO) today received confirmation of funding from the Government of Canada, which will allow the Port Hope and Port Granby Projects to move forward into Phase 2. The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister … Continue reading
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Tagged environmental assessment, government, municipality, nuclear, peer review, politics, waste, waste management
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Adaptive Management – What does it mean for environmental management?
Adaptive management (AM) is one of those terms that you often see used in Environmental Assessments (EAs) and other environmental projects that require long-term planning and monitoring. So what exactly does it mean for resource managers and environmental assessment practitioners? … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, consultation, environmental assessment, government, management, project management, stakeholders
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Community Well-being – What is it and What Does it Mean for Projects and Local Communities?
The concept of community well-being is one of the frameworks for community assessment along with other concepts (e.g. local community quality-of life studies, community health or community capacity). Measuring well-being in a community is vital to knowing how that community … Continue reading
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Tagged community, consultation, environmental assessment, planning, sustainability
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Risk Perception in Environmental Decision Making
Risk has been defined in a number of ways, but is often seen as the likelihood that an individual will experience the effect of danger, the probability of an adverse event or the magnitude of its consequences (Short Jr, 1984; … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, consultation, environmental assessment, green, public engagement, risk management
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What is deliberative democracy and what does it mean for public consultation?
From the Literature Deliberative democracy is a form of democracy in which public deliberation is central to legitimate lawmaking. It adopts elements of both representative democracy and direct democracy and differs from traditional democratic theory in that deliberation, not voting, … Continue reading
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Game Plan: Implementing Sustainbility Working Sessions
Our planet is rapidly becoming more urban. According to UN-Habitat, an agency mandated by the UN General Assembly to encourage socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities, global population growth between the years 1950-1975 was relatively uniformly divided between urban … Continue reading
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Public Consultation 101 – Who Are We Consulting With?
A variety of ‘communities’ should be considered in the EA process. This is part three of a three part series on the evolution of public consultation, written by Environmental Planner, Danya Al-Haydari. When there is a public consultation process for … Continue reading
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The Evolution of Public Consultation – Learning From Past Mistakes
This is part two of a three part series on the evolution of public consultation, written by Environmental Planner, Danya Al-Haydari. Public consultation is a regulatory process by which the public’s input on matters affecting them is sought. Its main goals … Continue reading
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Port Hope Project Update
The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) Port Hope Project is an ongoing clean up and remediation project in the Municipality of Port Hope. It involves moving approximately 1.2 million cubic metres of contaminated soil to an engineered mound at the … Continue reading
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Port Granby Project: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) Licensing Hearing
The Port Granby Project is a soil remediation project taking place in the Municipality of Clarington for the clean up of low level and historic radioactive waste. The project has been on the go since 2001 and has completed the … Continue reading
