*PRE-ORDER, APPROX 4-6 BUSINESS DAYS* A Guide to Canada’s Impact Assessment Act 2025 Edition by Rodney Northey 9780433536987 [ZZ]

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The federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) which came into force on August 28, 2019, represents a fundamental shift in federal environmental assessment in Canada. The move from environmental assessment to impact assessment has resulted in a need for guidance on how the new legislation differs from the old and the ramifications of those differences. That’s what A Guide to Canada’s Impact Assessment Act, 2025 Edition provides.

Practical and Informative
Written by expert environmental lawyer, Rodney Northey, A Guide to Canada’s Impact Assessment Act, 2025 Edition offers valuable insight into the new Act as well as a detailed review of each of the processes that now govern impact assessment. In particular, practitioners of impact assessment and environmental, resources and infrastructure law will benefit from:

• The overview of the IAA, including the most relevant features
• Discussion of the principal factors for assessments and decision-making
• Comprehensive discussion and analysis of the steps in the assessment process
• The full text of the IAA and the accompanying regulations

What's New in the 2025 Edition

• Analysis of the 2023 decision, Reference re Impact Assessment Act, where the Supreme Court of Canada declared a significant portion of the IAA unconstitutional
• Inclusion of the 2024 amendments to the IAA in response to Reference re Impact Assessment Act
• Discussion of the new public interest test
• Analysis of the shift from “environmental assessment” to “impact assessment”
• Updates to the IAA’s regulations

A Guide to Canada’s Impact Assessment Act, 2025 Edition proves indispensable to:

• Environmental consultants who are responsible for assessing the significance of environmental effects under IAA and numerous environmental regimes across Canada
• Environmental, energy, aboriginal law, and natural resources lawyers in public and private practice who advise clients on IAA issues and the significance of effects in numerous legal contexts
• Management and in-house counsel in the energy, mining and natural resources sectors who seek to comply with IAA and design projects to avoid or minimize significant environmental effects
• Regulatory personnel who administer IAA and other federal, provincial, territorial and self-government regimes that focus on the significance of environmental effects
• Teachers and advanced environmental studies students interested in environmental assessment inside and outside Canada