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Environment

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

Strategic Environmental Assessment is a broad-based approach to environmental assessment that examines the environmental effects which may be associated with a plan, program or policy proposal and that allows for the incorporation of environmental considerations at the earliest stages of program planning. SEA typically involves a broader-scale environmental assessment (EA) that considers the larger ecological setting, rather than a project-specific environmental assessment that focuses on site-specific issues with defined boundaries. The C-NLOPB decided in 2002 to conduct a SEA of portions of the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area that may have the potential for offshore oil and gas exploration activity but that were not subject to recent SEA nor to recent and substantial site-specific assessments. The following is a listing of strategic environmental assessments completed by the C-NLOPB or those that are in progress.

 

COMPLETED STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS (SEAs)

Southern Newfoundland Strategic Environmental Assessment (Final Report)

• Table of Contents, Chapter 1, Chapter 2
• Chapter 3, Part 1 & 2
• Chapter 3, Part 3
• Chapter 3, Part 4
• Chapter 3, Part 5 & 6
• Chapter 3, Part 7 & 8
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Appendix 1

 

SEA for Labrador Shelf Offshore Area (Final Report)

• Table of Contents, Chapter 1, Chapter 2
• Chapter 3 Part 1
• Chapter 3 Part 2
• Chapter 3 Part 3
• Chapter 3 Part 4
• Chapter 3 Part 5
• Chapter 3 Part 6
• Chapter 4 Part 1
• Chapter 4 Part 2
• Chapter 4 Part 3
• Chapter 5 and Appendices

 

Labrador Shelf SEA Summary Document (Final Report)

• English
• Innu-aimun
• Inuktitut

 

SEA Sydney Basin Offshore Area

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Exploration and Production Activities
• Chapter 3 - Physical Environment
• Chapter 3 - Physical Environment Cont'd
• Chapter 4 - Biological Environment
• Chapter 4 - Biological Environment Cont'd
• Chapter 4 - Biological Environment Cont'd
• Chapter 5 - Potential Environmental Effects from Exploration and Production Activities
• Chapter 6 - Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 7 - References

Appendixes

 

SEA Western Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area

• Western NL SEA Scoping Document
• Western Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area SEA
• Western Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area SEA Amendment

 

SEA for the Northeast Newfoundland Shelf and the Orphan Basin area

SEA for the Laurentian Sub-basin