{"id":814845,"date":"2026-07-20T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:18:15","slug":"quebec-and-ottawa-strike-deal-to-speed-up-environmental-assessments-for-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814845\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec and Ottawa strike deal to speed up environmental assessments for projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>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 Joel Lightbound announced an agreement in principle on Monday that aims to eliminate duplication and expedite environmental assessment for major projects.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will ensure projects that fall under Quebec&#8217;s jurisdiction are subject only to the province&#8217;s evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-day public consultation on the matter will take place this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, Lightbound says, is to make the agreement official within a month.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has reached similar agreements with seven other provinces in the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-814845","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\/814845","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=814845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}