Appearance before the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (March 2023): Supplementary Binder used by the President

Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Assessments, By the Numbers

Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Assessments, By the Numbers (PDF - 127 kB)

Status of Requests for Assessments under IAA

Status of Requests to Designate Physical Activities and Ministerial ResponsesFootnote 1

All designation requests are posted on IAAC’s Registry when the request is received and deemed to be an official request. Related documents, including the Minister’s Response, are also available on the Registry. The table below includes the 52 designation requests under IAA, including ongoing requests and related correspondence. Under CEAA 2012, the Agency received 35 requests.

Designation Requests: Ongoing (1)

Project Name

Result

Response date

Baldwin East Aerodrome Project

Ongoing

09/05/2023*

*Anticipated dates of Ministerial responses

Minister’s Response: Designation Warranted (5)

Project Name

Result

Response date

(Old) Coalspur Vista Coal Underground Mine and Expansion Activities Project

Project designated by the Minister

31/07/2020

Fording River

Project designated by the Minister

18/08/2020

Highway 413 (GTA West)

Project designated by the Minister

03/05/2021

Tent Mountain Coal Mine Expansion

Project designated by the Minister

28/06/2021

Coalspur Vista Coal Undeground Mine Project and Vista Mine Phase Phase II Expansion

Projects designated by the Minister2

29/09/2021

Minister’s Response: Designation Not Warranted (42)

Project Name

Result

Response date

Goldboro Gold Mine*

Designation not warranted

12/12/2019

Reid Road Reservoir Quarry*

Designation not warranted

12/12/2019

Rycroft Alternative Water Hub Facility*

Designation not warranted

12/12/2019

Xplornet Telecommunications Tower*

Designation not warranted

12/12/2019

600 Creek Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Atwater Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Blackbird Creek Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Brooksby Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Dry Lake Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Lang Creek West Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Saline Lake Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Vipond Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Wascana Block A Drainage Network*

Designation not warranted

13/12/2019

Northern Pulp Replacement Effluent Treatment Facility*

Designation not warranted

16/12/2019

Coalspur Phase II

Designation not warranted

12/20/2019

West Path Delivery Projects

Designation not warranted

27/05/2020

CanPacific Potash - Project Albany

Designation not warranted

26/08/2020

Surrey-Langley Sky Train

Designation not warranted

28/09/2020

Vivian Sand Processing Facility Project and Vivian Sand Extraction

Designation not warranted

16/11/2020

NWT Railway Switching Operation

Designation not warranted

19/01/2021

Ontario Line

Designation not warranted

16/04/2021

Bradford Bypass

Designation not warranted

03/05/2021

Town of Erin Urban Centre Wastewater Treatment Plant

Designation not warranted

26/05/2021

CP Logistics Park: Vancouver

Designation not warranted

04/11/2021

Pitt Meadows Road and Rail Improvements Project

Designation not warranted

04/11/2021

Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Expansion Projects

Designation not warrantedFootnote 2

04/11/2021

Touquoy Gold Mine Expansion

Designation not warranted

05/11/2021

Meltech Industrial Building

Designation not warranted

21/11/2021

Vivian Sand Project (reconsideration)

Designation not warranted

07/12/2021

PADCOM Potash Solution Mining

Designation not warranted

14/02/2022

Northern Pulp Mill Transformation and Effluent Treatment Facility Project

Designation not warranted

10/06/2022

Chin Reservoir Expansion and Modernization

Designation not warranted

29/06/2022

Tenas

Designation not warranted

14/07/2022

Scully Mine Tailings Impoundment Expansion

Designation not warranted

20/07/2022

Deadhorse Coulee Reservoir

Designation not warranted

05/08/2022

Snake Lake Reservoir Expansion

Designation not warranted

21/09/2022

Patterson Lake South Mine Project

Designation not warranted

14/11/2022

Summit Mine 14 Project

Designation not warranted

14/11/2022

Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Demonstration Project

Designation not warranted

22/12/2022

Sugar Creek Peat Harvesting Project

Designation not warranted

23/01/2023

Lambert La Ronge Peat Harvest Project

Designation not warranted

02/03/2023

Clearwater Peat Harvesting Project

Designation not warranted

30/03/2023

Minister’s Response: Minister Cannot Designate (4)

Project Name

Result

Response date

Broadway Subway

Minister cannot designate per subsection 9(7) limitation

28/09/2020

Highway 101 Twinning Phase II Aboiteau and Bridges

Minister cannot designate per subsection 9(7) limitation

11/05/2021

Long Pond Development

Minister cannot designate per subsection 9(7) limitation

03/08/2021

The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus Project

Minister cannot designate per subsection 9(7) limitation

08/02/2022

Status of Requests to for Regional and Strategic Assessments

All Regional and Strategic Assessments, as well relevant requests for, including their status and all related documents, are included on the dedicated IAAC webpage on Regional and Strategic Assessments. The table below provides an overview of the five regional assessments (RA) and one strategic assessment (SA), as well as the ten requests for RAs and one request for a SA.

Minister’s Response to Request: RA Warranted (4)

Regional Assessment

Status

Decision date

Ring of Fire (ON) x3 – EJSC, James Bay Lowlands, WCS

RA warranted

10/02/2020

St. Lawrence River Regional Assessment

RA warranted

15/07/2021

Minister’s Response to Request: RA Not Warranted (8)

Regional Assessment

Status

Decision date

Coal Development in Southwest Alberta

RA not warranted

16/06/2021

Western Energy Corridor

RA not warranted

21/06/2021

Toronto Danforth area including lands on the west side of the Don River

RA not warranted

19/07/2021

Radioactive Disposal in the Ottawa Valley

RA not warranted

30/07/2021

Regional Assessment of Infilling in Halifax Harbour

RA not warranted

30/11/2021

Salish Sea

RA not warranted

20/09/2022

Western Energy Corridor from Alberta to Manitoba

RA not warranted

15/11/2022

Regional Assessment in the Southern Alberta Foothills

RA not warranted

27/02/2023

Strategic Assessments (1)

Strategic Assessment

Request Status

Decision date

Strategic Assessment of Climate Change

Completed

08/2019

 

Minister’s Response to Request: SA Not Warranted (1)

Strategic Assessment

Request Status

Decision date

In Situ Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities

SA not warranted

05/07/2021

Anticipated Assessment Decision-Making - 6 Month Look Ahead (March – August 2023)

Map of Canada
Timeline
  • Summary

    Map of Canada, and timeline, depicting projects under assessment with anticipated ministerial decision in the next 6 months: Tilbury Marine Jetty (British Columbia; Substituted under CEAA 2012; ministerial decision anticipated in April 2023); Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (British Columbia; Review Panel under CEAA 2012; ministerial decision anticipated in April 2023).

Project Name

Tilbury Marine Jetty (BC)

Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (BC)

Project Type

LNG Transport Jetty

Marine Terminal

Capital Investment

$260 million

$3 billion (for construction)

Next Ministerial Decision*

April 2023

April 2023

Anticipated Final Project Decision*

April 2023†

April 2023†

Assessment Type

Substituted under CEAA 2012 (province-led)

Review Panel under CEAA 2012

Current Status / Next Milestone

BC provided EA report in October 2022

Project now in decision-making process

Provincial Status

BC led substituted EA completed, awaiting ministerial decision

BC EA to be concluded after federal decision

Key Issues / Considerations

Cumulative effects of marine shipping (southern resident killer whale; Indigenous rights)

Cumulative effects on southern resident killer whale; salmon; biofilm; impacts on Indigenous rights

* Dates contingent on the timing and quality of project information from proponents
† Project decisions that are anticipated to require Governor in Council decision-making

Note: As of March 22, 2023

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