Impact & Environmental Assessment: It’s a Lot & We Can Get Great Things DoneA Recipe for Meaningful Assessments in a Time of Innovation, Modernization, and UncertaintyOctober 23rd – 24th, 2024Old Mill Toronto – 21 Old Mill Road, Toronto OVERVIEW: OAIA members, as well as impact and environmental assessment practitioners, are encouraged to submit a proposal…
Impact & Environmental Assessment: It’s a Lot & We Can Get Great Things DoneA Recipe for Meaningful Assessments in a Time of Innovation, Modernization, and UncertaintyOctober 23rd – 24th, 2024Old Mill Toronto – 21 Old Mill Road, Toronto OVERVIEW: Environmental Assessment (EA) and Impact Assessment (IA) practitioners are pulled in a lot of directions during…
Back to Basics: Creating Value through Environmental Assessment DATE: October 19th – 21st, 2022 LOCATION: York University, Convention Centre, 2nd floor at the Second Student Centre OVERVIEW: This year’s conference theme explores the value and importance of impact assessment in Ontario by exploring the fundamentals of good impact assessment practice. A diversity of perspectives, case studies…
OAIA 2022 Webinar Series The Ontario Association for Impact Assessment (OAIA) offers two virtual webinars to facilitate discussion about current topics in impact assessment and engage with both our regular and student members. Summer Webinar: COVID-19 & Impact Assessment: A Case Study from the Ring of FireJuly 18, 2022 at 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm…
Common Goal, Uncommon Pathways DATE: October 20th – 21st, 2021 LOCATION: Virtually Hosted OVERVIEW: The goal of Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act is the “betterment of the people of the whole or any part of Ontario by providing for the protection, conservation and wise management in Ontario of the environment”. This is a goal that many Ontarians…
OAIA 2021 Webinar Series During 2021, restrictions due to COVID-19 continue to affect programming at the Ontario Association for Impact Assessment (OAIA). OAIA offers two virtual webinars to facilitate discussion about current topics in impact assessment and engage with both our regular and student members. These include: a Winter Webinar focusing on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…
Important Announcement Regarding the 2020 OAIA Conference Dear OAIA Members and Impact Assessment Community, During this very difficult time of the COVID-19 global pandemic, our hearts go out to everyone in our community as we navigate new challenges, make major adjustments to our lifestyles, and care for the health and well-being of ourselves and of…
Transforming & Re-Energizing Ontario: Impact Assessment for a Low Carbon Future DATE: October 29th – 30th, 2019 LOCATION: Faculty Club – University Of Toronto, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 OVERVIEW: The Government of Ontario’s A Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan commits to addressing climate change and its discussion paper entitled Modernizing Ontario’s environmental assessment program proposes…
Special Session: Indigenous Voices in Environmental AssessmentJune 13, 2019 (5 pm – 8 pm)Member Invite There is increasing imperative to fully involve Indigenous people and respectfully assess impacts on their constitutionally protected Aboriginal and Treaty rights within provincial and federal environmental assessments. Governments and proponents are challenged to work with Indigenous groups to meet regulatory…