The ministry is committed to ensuring proponents comply with the commitments they made in their environmental assessment (EA) and with the conditions of their approval. To that end, there are two components of compliance:
- compliance monitoring
- effects monitoring
Compliance monitoring
Compliance monitoring is an assessment of whether a project has been implemented according to commitments made in the EA and the conditions of approval.
The EA must include a monitoring framework that considers all phases for the proposed project such as construction and decommissioning. The proponent must provide annual compliance monitoring reports to the ministry.
Effects monitoring
Effects monitoring is used after EA project approval to:
- verify the expected environmental effects
- determine if additional impact management measures are required
Where warranted, the ministry may require additional effects monitoring such as monitoring air quality or emissions.
