{"id":174102,"date":"2025-12-08T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174102\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:05:08","slug":"quebec-announces-plan-to-cut-environmental-assessment-times-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174102\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec announces plan to cut environmental assessment times in half"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s environment minister says the province will reduce the amount of time it takes to complete an environmental assessment by about half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bernard Drainville says the time savings will come from simplifying the process for industry and government, without compromising standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">He says the time to complete an environmental assessment will drop to nine months, down from the current 13 to 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The new rules are expected to accelerate major projects in the energy, industrial, mining and transportation sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Drainville says his plan would also allow affected members of the public and Indigenous communities to get involved in reviews, earlier in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">There will be a consultation on the new rules that begins later this week, after they are published in the province&#8217;s official Gazette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s environment minister says the province will reduce the amount of time it takes to complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[112017,273,112019,112018,111,139,69,281,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-174102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bernard-drainville","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-environment-minister","11":"tag-environmental-assessment","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-quebec","16":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}