Project approval, environmental assessment and public participation英文文献.pdfVIP

Project Approval, Environmental Assessment and Public Participation P. S. ELDER* Faculty of Environmental Design, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada S U M M A R Y ity for the in situ recovery of crude bitumen from the Clearwater formation of the Cold Lake heavy Assessing the desirability of large scale resource devel- oil sands. A preliminary application for approval opment is an extremely complicated process. In the past, of the project was submitted to the Alberta Ener- the presumption has been that economic criteria were decisive. Lately, however, we have accepted the idea that gy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) in social and environmentalfactors will affect the design and November 1977. The scheme proposed the re- procedures of development, and, in extreme cases, may covery of 25,000 cubic metres per day (m3/d) or even indicate the abandonment of a project. Public input 160,000 barrels per day (bbls/d) of crude bitu- and formal environmental and social impact assessment men by alternately injecting vast quantities of un- have been accepted in principle, and the challenge is to in- saturated steam at greater than fracture pressures corporate them within an orderly and expeditious govern- into wells and then reversing the process and mental decision process.