Offshore energy regulators renamed in federal impact assessment law's list of federal authorities

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The federal Impact Assessment Act has been updated to replace the term 'Board' with 'Regulator' for the two offshore energy bodies — the ones operating under the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada–Nova Scotia Atlantic Accord implementation acts — in the schedule that lists federal authorities covered by the Act. This is a terminology change reflecting how those bodies are now named in their own governing legislation. Organizations and projects subject to federal impact assessments that involve these offshore regulators should ensure their documentation and correspondence uses the updated term 'Regulator' rather than 'Board.' No substantive changes to which bodies are covered or how the impact assessment process works appear to have been made.

Who this affects: offshore energy project developers · federal impact assessment participants · Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador offshore sector operators · Canada–Nova Scotia offshore sector operators