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Backgrounder: Mackenzie Valley Recommendations
2010-02-18
Background Contents
2. Recommendations
3. Cumulative Effects
4. Wildlife and Protected Areas
5. What’s next?
6. Acknowledgements
Sierra Club Canada is pleased that so many of our interventions in the hearings for the Mackenzie Gas Project are reflected in the 176 recommendations of the Joint Review Panel for this $16 billion project. Most notably, the Panel has recommended that natural gas from Northern Canada not be used to fuel further tar sands development in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) finally released its report and recommendations on December 30, 2009. The Panel report concludes that the MGP could be sustainable if all 176 of its recommendations are implemented. The Panel report states: "If the Project were permitted to proceed without full implementation of the Panel's recommendations, its contribution to sustainability would be negative."... Read more »
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Map of Mackenzie Valley Gas Project
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SCC Comments on JRP Recommendations within the NEB’s mandate
2010-02-11
Please find in the attached document comments by the Sierra Club of Canada (SCC) on the Joint Review Panel (JRP) recommendations within the National Energy Board’s (NEB’s) mandate.
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MEDIA BACKGROUNDER: Sierra Club Canada submits to National Energy Board its official response to the Joint Review Panel report on the Mackenzie Gas Project
WHAT: February 11th marks the deadline for interveners in the Mackenzie Gas Project National Energy Board hearings to respond to the recommendations made by the Joint Review Panel report released December 30th, 2009.
OVERALL COMMENTS ON JRP REPORT:
With 176 recommendations pointing to varying levels of readiness by both the proponent and the government bodies overseeing and preparing for development, it is highly questionable that the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) will contribute to sustainability or avoid significant adverse impacts. Sierra Club Canada (SCC) is concerned that without full implementation of the Joint Review Panel’s (JRP’s) recommendations, as the JRP itself notes numerous times, that significant adverse impacts will result to ecosystems and communities upstream, and that the project will help continue an unsustainable pattern of fossil fuel use downstream.... Read more »
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