Determining whether a designated project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 : interim technical guidance.: En106-205/2018E-PDF

"The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012) aims to protect components of the environment that are within federal legislative authority from significant adverse environmental effects caused by a project, including cumulative environmental effects. In addition, CEAA 2012 ensures that a project is considered in a careful and precautionary manner to avoid significant adverse environmental effects, when the exercise of a power or performance of a duty or function by a federal authority under any Act of Parliament is required for the project to be carried out. This technical guidance provides methodological options and considerations to support the implementation of CEAA 2012 and the approach outlined in the Operational Policy Statement on Determining Whether a Designated Project is Likely to Cause Significant Adverse Environmental Effects under CEAA 2012 (OPS), in a way that achieves high quality EA”--Introd., p. 2.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.
Title Determining whether a designated project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 : interim technical guidance.
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Déterminer la probabilité qu'un projet désigné entraîne des effets environnementaux négatifs importants en vertu de la Loi canadienne sur l'évaluation environnementale (2012) : orientations techniques intérim.
"March 2018."
Issued also in HTML format.
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, 2018.
Description iv, 15 p.
ISBN 9780660246369
Catalogue number
  • En106-205/2018E-PDF
Edition Version 1.
Subject terms Environmental impact assessment
Government policy
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