Page 2 – Eligible Project Types

About Eligible Project Types

The Province defines the categories below. To be designated as Provincially Significant, a project must fit one or more of these types. The definitions here are provided for reference by the Province. You’ll see these options again when you’re asked to choose your top five. We don’t recommend any option.

Your Priorities

This is a personal-priorities question. Select your top five project types—there is no right or wrong answer and no preferred set. These options are randomized on the survey, so you might not see the exact same order on your version of the survey.

Expanding Question

If you select Yes on the next question, you’ll be able to leave a comment. For ideas, see the optional suggested statements further down this page.

Opportunity for Comment

If you selected Yes on the previous question, you’ll now be able to leave a comment. For ideas, see the menu of optional suggested responses further down this page.

Menu of Suggested Responses

The grey boxes below are a menu of optional suggested statements to help you complete the survey. They appear in a random order each time you visit—no item is prioritized or preferred. Click Copy to place a statement on your clipboard, then paste it into the survey and edit it to make it your own.

The Eligible Project Types are too broad to meaningful assess priorities. The regulations need to provide clear evidence-based definitions of Eligible Project Types that justify why they are a high-priority provincially significant project type that advances economic, social, and environmental benefits.
The Eligible Project Types are too broad. Only those Project Types that advance either (1) human health and safety, or (2) the prioritization of biodiversity and ecosystem health, should be eligible for fast-tracking under the Act.
It is not possible to prioritize project types without knowing what safeguards will be in place to ensure environmental standards are upheld.
The Critical Minerals and Mining Project Type should be removed from the eligible project types. Major mining projects (including critical minerals mines) have the potential to cause substantial and severe environmental, social, and economic implications and thus require rigorous review that cannot be fast-tracked in order to protect human, environmental and economic well-being.
The Critical Minerals and Mining Project Type, if included, should involve include only “transition” mineral projects must exclude non-critical mining projects and only include critical mineral projects that demonstrably (using evidence-based methodology) support the transition to a low-carbon economy, and extract only those minerals recognized and evidenced as transition mineralscritical (i.e. should explicitly exclude any gold, silver, or coal extraction, production, and/or distribution).
The Critical Minerals and Mining Project Type must be ineligible for bypassing Environmental Assessment and public consultation processes, given the extensive long-term impacts to human health and environmental health that these projects cause. This exclusion from complete bypassing of EA process and requirements should be noted in the definition.
The government’s promise that this legislation does not change environmental requirements can only be upheld if fast-tracking only allows prioritization of some projects over others but does not allow bypassing of environmental requirements.
The Energy Security Project Type must be defined to exclude any project related to the production, transportation or export of fossil fuels. This exclusion is necessary to uphold Premier Eby and Minister Ma’s promises in introducing Bill 15 that LNG projects or pipelines will be barred from being designated projects.
The regulations should clearly state that fossil fuels are not a sustainable energy resource and fossil fuel projects cannot be designated under the Act as they will undermine BC’s climate goals.
The Public Infrastructure Project Type is too broad and unclear (i.e., it is not clear what project is owned by the public but not a school, hospital, or category 1 project). The province should remove this category or adopt a definition of public infrastructure that refers to specific problems that it has evidence for needing to be fixed urgently.