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The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: an Illustrative Case Study in Canada: a Critique for Environmental Management

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  1. For simplicity and consistency, I have adopted EIA, among the many possible related terms, to represent the matter in question, being the document produced in meeting the information requirements for a designated project under statutory environmental assessment legislation for the purposes of meeting regulatory requirements.

  2. see “Subjectivity Prevails over Significance”, paragraph 2.

  3. for an interesting exploration (nay, wrestling) of this, coincidentally quite recent and on a quite topical issue, see Charles H. Eccleston (2010) research article: assessing cumulative significance of greenhouse gas emissions: resolving the paradox. The Sphinx Solution, Environmental Practice, 12:2, 105–115.

  4. see “The Path Forward”, paragraph 1.

  5. Letter to Rt. Hon. John Horgan, Premier and President of the Executive Council, 19 November, 2018, Simon Fraser University, multiple cosigners (see Earth to Ocean Group website at https://earthtooceansfu.com/open-letter-on-environmental-assessment/).

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Hegmann, G. The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: an Illustrative Case Study in Canada: a Critique for Environmental Management. Environmental Management 64, 129–132 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01183-6

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