A look at the second batch of projects being weighed by the Major Projects Office
The $56 billion investment across six projects aims to accelerate permitting, create thousands of jobs, and develop critical minerals and clean energy infrastructure, government says.
- 1- Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a second set of “nation-building” infrastructure projects to receive fast-tracked review ahead of this weekend’s Grey Cup. 2- New referrals to the Major Projects Office include an LNG export terminal and a major transmission line in northwestern British Columbia. 3- Both projects sit within a proposed infrastructure corridor running from B.C.’s northwest into Yukon.
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What will the federal government's Major Projects Office do — and will it succeed?
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced this week a second round of projects he's recommending get fast-tracked by his government's Major Projects Office (MPO) as part of his promise to reduce Canada’s economic reliance on the U.S. But there are still questions about what a referral to the MPO actually means.
6 Key Takeaways From Carney’s Second Major Projects Announcement
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled the latest list of major projects his government is referring to the Major Projects Office (MPO) for approval. The Building Canada Act, passed in June as part of Bill C-5, gives the federal government the ability to designate certain “nation-building” projects for streamlined review and approval through the MPO, which was launched in August. Carney announced the second set of major projects being referred to t…
Round 2: Six new projects join the queue at the Major Projects Office
Referral includes three mining projects – New Brunswick’s Sisson, Quebec’s Nouveau Monde, and Ontario’s Crawford Nickel – a hydroelectric project in Nunavut, a ‘Northwest Corridor’ in B.C., and an LNG terminal in that same province.
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