Scenario Analysis - A Best Practice Approach Assessing the Cumulative Impacts of the Mackenzie Gas Project

Publication - Aug. 7, 2007 - By Simon Dyer, Peggy Holroyd, Jennifer Grant
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This report was prepared for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (Northwest Territories Chapter), Sierra Club of Canada (SCC,) World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Sierra Legal Defence Fund for submission to the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP.)

In preparation for the Topic 15 Cumulative Impacts hearing, this report addresses three objectives:

  1.  identify how scenario analysis is used as a best practice in the assessment of cumulative effects;
  2.  provide examples of scenario analysis applied in different jurisdictions; and
  3.  provide recommendations for how scenario analysis could be conducted to assess the cumulative impacts of the MGP including the impacts of future-induced development.
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