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Background
The environmental impact assessment (IA) process can be overwhelmingly complex for new practitioners. As the associated legislation continues to evolve and a new federal act being released over the next year this is the ideal time to ensure you are well versed and knowledgeable.

What You’ll Learn:
In this two-day interactive workshop, you will take away a comprehensive overview of IA including:
Foundation in systems theory and rational planning theory
Step-by-step process of project scoping
How to gather relevant data
Public and Indigenous engagement best practices
Methods of assessing project effects & cumulative effects
Project mitigation and monitoring
*You will also learn IA legislation, including the evolution of the federal process, the EIS, a description of the upcoming IAA, and an overview of the provincial process.

Workshop will be conducted in a classroom setting to demonstrate and practice the various components of EA process featuring:
Several hypothetical case studies
Interactive breakout session

Who Should Attend:
Environmental practitioners with an interest in impact assessments
Project managers, engineers and coordinators that need a refresher

Agenda:

Day 1
8:30am – 9:00am – Registration
9:00am – 12:00pm – Morning session
Introductions
Purpose of Impact Assessment
Background
Scoping
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch break (provided)
1:00pm – 4:00pm – Afternoon session
Data gathering
Data analysis
Impact Assessment
Monitoring

Day 2
9:00am – 12:00pm – Morning session
Federal regulatory approvals process
History
CEAA
IAA
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch break (provided)
1:00pm – 4:00pm – Afternoon session
Provincial regulatory approvals process