Feds Introduce Plan Meant to Streamline Process of Getting Projects Built

The federal government has announced a plan it hopes will speed up development for major projects—especially those involving renewable energy. “Its purpose is to cut red tape, to cut duplication, and to maintain environmental integrity so that we take advantage of some historic energy investment opportunities that are before us, so we can get stuff built faster,” federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan told a news conference on June 20. Mr. O’Regan is chair of the Ministerial Working Group on Regulatory Efficiency for Clean Growth Projects. “We need to build more mines, we need to build more dams, we need to build more nuclear, we need to build more solar, we need to build more wind farms,” Mr. O’Regan told reporters....