“The race is on to build some big projects and secure our energy future,” said Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan. “We need to build more mines, we need to build more dams, we need to build more nuclear, we need to build more solar, and we need to build more wind farms.”Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 13, 2024.
A cabinet sub-committee has released a new action plan aimed at streamlining the permitting process for major energy projects in Canada. The strategy seeks to provide businesses with a greater degree of certainty by proposing specific targets for conducting federal assessment processes. Moving forward, the government will look to evaluate and permit federally designated projects within five years for federally designated projects, while non-designated proposals will be assessed within two years, and nuclear projects will be completed in three years.