Cumulative Effects Assessment Sample Clauses

Cumulative Effects Assessment. The cumulative effects assessment should take into consideration the approach described in the Agency’s Cumulative Effects Assessment Practitioners Guide (1999) and in the Agency’s Operation Policy Statement entitled “Addressing Cumulative Environmental Effects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act” updated in November 2007. The Joint Review Panel should focus its consideration of cumulative effects on key valued components. Without limiting itself thereto, the following components should be considered:  water quality and quantity, including any potential effects on navigable waters or navigation;  air quality and greenhouse gas emissions;  asserted or established Aboriginal and treaty rights and interests;  wildlife and wildlife habitat for valued species including: federally and provincially listed species at risk, and migratory birds; and  valued vegetation communities and wetlands. The cumulative effects assessment should provide a justification and description of the temporal boundaries and include, but not be limited to, the following:  a pre-industrial case to allow the Joint Review Panel to take into account the effects that may have already been experienced prior to the project; and  future foreseeable projects or activities as of the issuance of the Joint Review Panel’s Terms of Reference.

Cumulative Effects Assessment. The cumulative effects assessment should take into consideration the approach described in the latest version of the Agency’s “Technical Guidance for Assessing Cumulative Environmental Effects under CEAA 2012” (updated April 2017), and in the Operational Policy Statement “Assessing Cumulative Environmental Effects under CEAA 2012” (March 2015). The Joint Review Panel should focus its consideration of cumulative effects on key valued components. Cumulative effects assessment should include effects from projects or activities that have been or will be carried out, including a consideration of accidents or malfunctions, as of the issuance of the Joint Review Panel’s Terms of Reference.

Cumulative Effects Assessment. The cumulative effects assessment should take into consideration the approach described in the Agency’s Cumulative Effects Assessment Practitioners Guide (1999) and in the Agency’s Operational Policy Statement entitled “Assessing Cumulative Environmental Effects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012” updated in May 2013. The Joint Review Panel should focus its consideration of cumulative effects on key valued components. The cumulative effects assessment should provide a justification and description of the spatial and temporal boundaries and include, but not be limited to, the following: • a pre-Coal Valley Mine case to allow the Joint Review Panel to take into account the effects that may have already been experienced prior to the Project; • projects or activities that have been carried out, including a consideration of accidents or malfunctions, as of the issuance of the Joint Review Panel’s Terms of Reference; and • activities that will be carried out for which an application has been made as of the time of the Joint Review Panel’s Notice of Hearing.

Cumulative Effects Assessment. Except where modified by these terms of reference, Tthe cumulative effects assessment should take into consideration and follow the approach described in the Agency’s Cumulative Effects Assessment Practitioners Guide (1999) and in the Agency’s Operation Policy Statement entitled “Assessing Cumulative Environmental Effects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012” updated in May 2013 with respect to environmental effects. For greater clarity, the cumulative effects assessment under these terms of reference as it relates to Aboriginal Rights, Traditional Uses and culture is not limited to residual environmental effects or Impacts caused by effects on the physical environment. The Joint Review Panel should focus its consideration of cumulative effects on key valued components. Without limiting itself thereto, the following components should be considered:  water quality and quantity;  air quality and greenhouse gas emissions;  asserted or established Aboriginal or treaty rights and interests. Subcomponents of this valued component include, but are not limited to o hunting, trapping, fishing and gathering; o access; o loss of use/displacement of Rights and Traditional Uses o culture; and o socio-economic conditions  wildlife and wildlife habitat for valued species including: federally and provincially listed species at risk, and migratory birds; and  valued vegetation communities and wetlands. The cumulative effects assessment should provide a justification and description of the temporal boundaries and include, but not be limited to, the following:  a pre-industrial case to allow the Joint Review Panel to take into account the effects that may have already been experienced prior to the project; and  future foreseeable projects or activities as of the issuance of the Joint Review Panel’s Terms of Reference;  an explanation of how the Aboriginal Perspective and Traditional Knowledge waswere incorporated in the conclusions of the cumulative effects assessment; and  the thresholds or other defined limits of acceptable change for key valued components and related key indicators, including without limitation thresholds for the opportunity to exercise Aboriginal Rights, Traditional Uses and culture.

Cumulative Effects Assessment. 1.1 PTP will support in principle a First Nations- led Cumulative Effects Assessment, focused on the proposed pipeline corridor, before any further pipeline proposals are authorized in the general vicinity of the proposed KSL Project pipeline corridor, and agrees that PTP will co- operate and assist in the Cumulative Effects Assessment as reasonably required in respect of information and impacts from the KSL Project.