{"id":927078,"date":"2026-10-09T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927078\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:20:11","slug":"alberta-court-of-appeal-says-ottawas-impact-assessment-act-is-still-unconstitutional-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927078\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Court of Appeal says Ottawa&#8217;s impact assessment act is still unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that the federal government\u2019s Impact Assessment Act is still unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision issued today, the court said that even though Ottawa modified the law the after the Supreme Court struck down much of it in 2023, the new law still infringes on provincial jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second time the province of Alberta had challenged the act, which sets out a process to review the environmental, economic, health and social effects of proposed projects like ports, mines and pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal found that, among other things, the act still gives Ottawa the power to stop a project in provincial jurisdiction if it has even the smallest impact on federal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling comes as Ottawa and Alberta are partnering on a new oil pipeline to the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Pacific Link pipeline project became the first to receive a national interest designation under Ottawa\u2019s new Building Canada Act.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary 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=calgary.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\/10\/1791588011_64_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":"The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that the federal government\u2019s Impact Assessment Act is still unconstitutional. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,713,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-927078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927078","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=927078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}