{"id":814559,"date":"2026-07-20T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:12:11","slug":"quebec-and-ottawa-agree-to-streamline-environmental-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814559\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec and Ottawa agree to streamline environmental assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec and Ottawa have agreed to streamline the environmental assessment process for major infrastructure and resource development projects.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint announcement made on Monday, Quebec Environment Minister Pascale D\u00e9ry and Federal Minister and Quebec Liaison Jo\u00ebl Lightbound announced that they had reached an agreement in principle to eliminate duplication and speed up the assessment process for major projects such as mines.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-day public consultation on the matter will take place this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, Lightbound said, is \u201cto ratify this agreement within a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec and Ottawa have agreed to streamline the environmental assessment process for major infrastructure and resource development projects.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-814559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}