{"id":814753,"date":"2026-07-20T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:17:13","slug":"quebec-and-ottawa-agree-to-streamline-environmental-assessments-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814753\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec and Ottawa agree to streamline environmental assessments | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784575033_157_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Le ministre des Services pubics et de l&#8217;Approvisionnement, Jo\u00ebl Lightbound, prend part \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode de questions \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, \u00e0 Ottawa, le 15 juin 2026. LA PRESSE CANADIENNE\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 20, 2026 | 10:28 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec and Ottawa have agreed to streamline the environmental assessment process for major infrastructure and resource development projects.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec Environment Minister Pascale D\u00e9ry and Quebec Lieutenant Jo\u00ebl Lightbound announced an agreement in principle today that aims to eliminate duplication and expedite environmental assessment for major projects.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will ensure projects that fall under Quebec\u2019s jurisdiction are subject only to the province\u2019s evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-day public consultation on the matter will take place this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le ministre des Services pubics et de l&#8217;Approvisionnement, Jo\u00ebl Lightbound, prend part \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode de questions \u00e0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-814753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814753","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=814753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}