Green Paper On The Modernization Of Quebec's Environmental Authorization Regime Tabled By The Honourable David Heurtel

On June 11, Quebec's Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (the Minister) tabled a green paper on the modernization of the environmental authorization regime set out in the Environment Quality Act.¹ Special consultations and public hearings on the green paper are to be held before the Committee on Transportation and the Environment from August 31 to September 15, 2015 before a bill amending the Environment Quality Act is tabled in the fall of 2015 in order to implement the new environmental authorization regime.

In the years since it was passed (1972), the Environment Quality Act has undergone a myriad of amendments that have increased the number of regimes and made the Act more complicated to implement. Hence the need for reform.