Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

Section 197 Disposition versions

1979-02-14

197. The Commission shall examine and evaluate the impact assessment statement and render the decision provided for in section 200, taking into account, particularly, the following considerations, to which is shall grant the importance it deems appropriate:

(a)  the favourable and unfavourable aspects of the project as well as its positive and negative effects on the environment and social milieu;

(b)  environmental adversities which cannot be avoided by present technological means, and those which the applicant has not chosen to avoid completely, as well as the proposals of the latter aiming at limiting such adversities;

(c)  reasonable and available measures for preventing or reducing negative impacts and intensifying the positive impacts of the project;

(d)  reasonable alternatives to the project and its elements;

(e)  the methods and other measures proposed by the applicant to control sufficiently the emission of contaminants into the environment or to regulate other environmental problems, as the case may be;

(f)  the conformity of the envisaged project with the laws and regulations concerning the environmental problems caused by this type of project, including bills and draft regulations tabled officially by the Minister;

(g)  safety measures which are to be set in operation by the applicant in case of accident.

1978, c. 94, s. 4.