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Why the environmental assessment process needs an overhaul
A controversial mining project in British Columbia raises questions about the need for a single environmental assessment process throughout Canada.
The Prosperity Gold Copper Mine, a project of Vancouver-based Taseko Mines Ltd., is a proposed open-pit mine located 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, B.C. In addition to the mine itself, the project would involve 125 kilometres of new transmission lines, a new site access road and an on-site mill.
The project - coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on the federal environmental assessment ... |
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Putting a price on global environmental damage
Global environmental damage caused by human activity in 2008 represented a monetary value of $ 6.6 trillion, equivalent to 11% of global GDP, calculates a study released today by the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
Those global costs are 20% larger than the $ 5.4 trillion decline in the value of pension funds in developed countries caused by the global financial crisis in 2007/8.
The study, an initial effort to quantify in monetary terms the environmental harm caused by business and the possible ... |
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