Updated Federal and Alberta Legal

The members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and the President of the University of Calgary. [...] The Court of Appeal concluded that the AER was statutorily obliged to take into account the honour of the Crown as part of reconciliation into the public interest in deciding whether to recommend approval of an oil sands project as this was different from the statutory bar of assessing the adequacy of consultation. [...] If an IA is required, the Agency must within the same 180 days± Planning Phase provide the Proponent with (a) Notice of the Commencement of the IA of the project that sets out the information or studies that the Agency requires from the proponent and considers necessary for the conduct of the IA; and (b) any documents that are prescribed by the Time Limits Regulations, including Tailored Guideline. [...] In formulating the Notice of Commencement the Agency must take into account the Federal IA Factors in section 22(1): 22 (1) The impact assessment of a designated project, whether it is conducted by the Agency or a review panel, must take into account the following factors: (a) the changes to the environment or to health, social or economic conditions and the positive and negative consequences of t. [...] Project approval will be made in the public interest that is defined in the IAA as considering: the extent the project contributes to sustainability; the extent the Panel Reports consider the project’s impacts adverse and significant; the implementation of mitigation measures recommended by the Report; the impact that project may have on any Indigenous group and any adverse impact that the project.