The Infrastructure Projects Act is getting pushback from every corner of the political spectrum it seems. First Nations don’t like it, municipalities are wary of it, some environmental groups have concerns, the Greens oppose it and the BC Conservatives are picking at it in a way that suggests they’re not quite sure what to make of it.
Some energy and resource companies may end up loving Bill 15, because it will help accelerate projects that quality as “designated” and “provincially significant.” Others may bristle at a two-tied regulatory system that ends up fast-tracking a niobium mine over one for metallurgical coal.
Bill 15 and Bill 14 — which exempts
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