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changing legal definitions
Alberta won’t require full environmental assessments for sandpits
Jul 7, 2020 | 4:47 PM
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EDMONTON – Alberta is moving to change the legal definition of minerals to spare excavators from having to conduct environmental assessments for large sandpits.
A court ruling earlier this spring would have forced sandpits for road and other construction projects to be regulated as if they were quarries.
That would have meant any new project digging up more than 45,000 tonnes of sand a year would have been subject to an environmental assessment.
The United Conservative government says sandpits are shallow and similar to each other, and their impacts are well understood.
