Who writes the rules?

The EA should be directed at whether or not the project will likely result in types of effects that are unique relative by the federal to other projects in the past, whether the types of effects associated with the project are capable of government. [...] Moreover, the list of issues that the EA should address is almost identical to what industry recommends with reference to mitigation, unique effects and alternative approaches to project development.5 •  Twenty-seven oil companies—some of the largest in the world—and eight well-financed industry associations registered 2,733 communications with designated public office-holders in the Government of [...] That section says: “On an application for a certificate, the Board shall consider the representations of any person who, in the Board’s opinion, is directly affected by the granting or refusing of the application, and it may consider the representations of any person who, in its opinion, has relevant information or expertise. [...] In that document, they state unequivocally: “The Board will not consider the environmental and socio-economic effects associated with upstream activities, the development of oil sands, or the downstream use of the oil transported by the pipeline.”3. [...] And since oil sands production cannot expand without an equivalent expansion of the means to transport the product to market, an oil pipeline is thus a direct contributor to the harmful climate change that the government of Canada has promised to work to prevent.” 1 EPIC report, page 13.