Meet the Environmental Assessment Team
The Environmental Assessment: Our Role
The Environmental Assessment Process
Baseline Assessment Information
Updated April 10, 2004
The Environmental Assessment Team has designed a Public Involvement Program (PIP) that is intended to meet the regulatory requirement for public involvement in the EIA in an effective and credible manner. The Program focuses on stakeholders, Aboriginal communities, and members of the public who are potentially affected by the Project. Other interested parties can also participate. It is intended to provide early and ongoing opportunities for potentially affected and interested parties to receive information on, and obtain their views about Project impacts, measures to mitigate Project impacts and the EIA process.
EIA public involvement activities will take place in three distinct rounds
beginning January 2004 and apply multiple methods of in order to reach
all potentially affected and interested stakeholders and provide suitable
opportunities for their involvement in the EIA.
These methods include stakeholder meetings and workshops, Aboriginal community
sessions, open houses, newsletters, an environmental assessment project
website and various other multimedia support tools. The EIA public involvement
program and its results will be documented in the Environmental Impact
Statement, as required by Section 4 of the Draft EIS Guidelines, and made
available to the public via this EIA project website and CEC public registries.
Two Sets of Public Consultation: Environmental Assessment Consultation and a separate MFEA Consultation
It is important to note that there are two public consultation efforts underway for the Proposed Floodway Expansion Project:
TetrES/InterGroup Environmental Assessment Public Consultations
As mentioned, a total of Three Rounds of Public Consultations will take place as part of the Environmental Assessment Public Involvement Program. Round One is now complete. Round Two will take place in early June, and Round Three will take place in the early fall after the Environmental Impact Statement has been filed and the public has a chance to review the document. As in the case of Round One, meetings with RM and City Councils, Stakeholder Groups and Public Open Houses will take place in each of the three rounds of public involvement.
Manitoba Floodway Expansion Authority (MFEA) Public Consultations
The MFEA Consultation Process involves discussion of a set of issues that are considered to fall under a separate process than the environmental assessment being undertaken by TetrES/InterGroup. The MFEA Public Consultations will deal with specific issues such as
- Flood Compensation Proposed Legislation
- Recreational Development Opportunities associated with the Floodway Expansion
- Summer Operation of the Floodway (existing and expanded Floodway)
MFEA's Public Consultations begin in April of 2004.
Details regarding both Public Consultations are provided below:
Round
1 Environmental Assessment Public Involvement Program
Round
2 Manitoba Floodway Expansion Authority Public Involvement Program
Round
3 Environmental Assessment Public Involvement Program
