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Oct 10, 2026
Shannon PhillipsHOST
The bill sets out a one-year federal review timeline under the Impact Assessment Act.
Shannon PhillipsHOST
Large linear projects like pipelines and transmission lines move to the Canadian Energy Regulator for review.
Shannon PhillipsHOST
Nuclear and uranium projects move to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Shannon PhillipsHOST
And the bill does create regions of national interest that can be pre-approved for development.
Joe CalnanHOST
... uh, south of Vancouver.
Joe CalnanHOST
So, uh, in terms of timelines, the Major Projects Office and the Canada Energy Regulator are now tasked with consultation with Indigenous communities and other impacted, uh, stakeholders.
Joe CalnanHOST
A tentative deadline of September 1st, 2027, has been provided to finalize approval conditions, uh, and I think that, uh, the Carney government, including Mark Carney himself and Tim Hodgson, have said that they expect that this will actually be the time that shovels are ready to start going into the ground.
Joe CalnanHOST
Um, so th- there's some question about...
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
So a big part of the focus then was just ensuring that the regulator continued in its safety mandate because we were trying to continue to oversee the construction of Trans Mountain Pipeline.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
But it was still very much a transition period between the NEB and the CER.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
So also bringing the legislation to life in terms of making sure that we were acting on all the social measures that were in there.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
It was the first piece of legislation federally that included implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Jackie ForrestHOST
Yeah, so that group would have been just getting formed at that time too.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
That's right.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
And we never had a single application come forward because one of the things that Bill C-69 changed was any pipeline over 75 kilometers was a designated project that had to undergo a joint review by the CER and the Impact Assessment Agency.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
And we had that Gaza Duke project that was talked about, but it never actually came forward.
Brian LilleyHOST
I don't think that's the government's intent, but if bureaucrats are involved, who knows? So what exactly is the conditions document that they have to get to?
Chris VarcoeGUEST
Well, what the regulators will do, and, and in this case, this will be the Canada Energy Regulator along with the Major Projects Office, they will look, they will do an environmental review.
Chris VarcoeGUEST
They will look at the routing.
Chris VarcoeGUEST
They will look at all the economic and environmental conditions.
Tammy NemethHOST
They have to come up with who's going to build it.
Tammy NemethHOST
They have to go through probably the review process through the Canadian Energy Regulator, go through all of that stuff.
Tammy NemethHOST
So they're thinking maybe they'll have production by 2032 on an oil pipeline.
Stu TurleyHOST
Doubt it.
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
What is the federal lane? What is the provincial lane? And then more exciting to Brian's point, you know, that great Tuesday where, you know, where, you know, a year's worth of advancements had been done by Tuesday.
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
The Impact Assessment Act was taken out by cabinet out of the Canadian Energy Regulator, out of pipelines, into provincial pipelines, out of in-situ oil sands and out of natural gas generation.
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
The three most important
Bronwyn EyreHOST
things
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
You have to have legislation for nuclear and for energy oil.
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
They just wanted it out of their regulators.
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
Leave us with the Canadian Energy Regulator and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Heather Exner-PirotGUEST
And that's what you're finally starting to get.
Kathleen PettyHOST
For more on what happens next, Emma Graney is an energy reporter with the Globe and Mail based in Calgary.
Kathleen PettyHOST
And Shetanda Silva, the former CEO of the Canada Energy Regulator.
Kathleen PettyHOST
She is the founder and president of GD Strategic and the inaugural executive director of the Peter Lougheed School of Politics and Democracy at the University of Alberta.
Kathleen PettyHOST
Shetan, Emma, good to see both of you.
Kathleen PettyHOST
Do we actually know that?
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
Well, that's what the decision is.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
Typically, when a proponent would make an application to the Canada Energy Regulator, the question is, is this project in the national interest? The commission would review all the information, have the hearings.
Gitane De SilvaGUEST
make a recommendation to cabinet at the end of that process.
Peter CopelandHOST
Um, just recently, early September, the government made federal government made some changes to the federal project approval system.
Peter CopelandHOST
Um, so certain interprovincial international pipelines, power lines will now be handled through the Canada energy regulator rather than through this impact This infamous, I would say, Impact Assessment Act review, and they're removing certain projects from the federal project list.
Peter CopelandHOST
So to acclaim and applause from many, many sectors, how significant do you think this is as it pertains directly to the types of greenfield projects? high impact major projects that can catalyze a whole host of a chain of positive economic reactions, one might say.
Jerome GessaroliGUEST
Well, I mean, in that case, the example you bring up of consolidating a little bit of the regulations and the types of projects, how they have to be assessed, again, that's the government acknowledging that the process isn't effective, it's not working.
Jerome GessaroliGUEST
For a series of projects, I think power lines and offshore renewable energy projects, things like that, and some oil development projects, there had to be originally an integrated energy regulator along with the IAA.
Jerome GessaroliGUEST
have an integrated type review.
Jerome GessaroliGUEST
And now they're saying, no, we're just going to move that and have the Canada Energy Regulator do the assessment.
Jerome GessaroliGUEST
And that's where a lot of the expertise resides.
Rob BreakenridgeHOST
But what should we be watching for? What needs to happen now to ensure that we continue this progress and continue to move forward?
Deborah YedlinGUEST
Well, now we're going to see the Canadian Energy Regulator, the CER, and the Major Projects Office.
Deborah YedlinGUEST
They will conduct a federal review.
Deborah YedlinGUEST
We know that according to Bill C-39, it's one project, one review, one year, so a year.
Graham RichardsonHOST
Hmm.
Richard MassonGUEST
If the Canadian Energy Regulator said it was okay, then cabinet would either add additional conditions or accept it the way it was.
Richard MassonGUEST
In the case of Northern Gateway, for example, Enbridge spent $600 million and many years to get to the point where the federal c- government essentially let that project die.
Graham RichardsonHOST
Hmm.
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