ICCE Releases Guide to Cumulative Effects Requirements Across Canada
ICCE is pleased to announce the release of its Guide to Cumulative Effects Requirements Across Canada. The Guide, which was developed in collaboration with The Firelight Group, will help Indigenous professionals, community members and other interested parties to understand requirements respecting cumulative effects across Canada. It will be especially helpful for Indigenous communities and practitioners preparing to engage with provincial, territorial, and federal governments when development projects are envisioned or planned in their territory.Â
This Guide is part of an effort by the Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects to provide technical support to Indigenous communities through relevant guidance documents.     ~ Leona Irons, Chair, ICCE Board of Director
Available for download from the ICCE website, the Guide identifies and describes requirements about cumulative effects found in laws, regulations, policies, Treaties, and land use plans in federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous jurisdictions across Canada.
We hope that this Guide will be a useful and powerful tool to support Indigenous communities in understanding the existing cumulative effects requirements in their territories. We are confident that it will help guide their interactions with governments and project proponents, and assist in developing stronger cumulative effects management frameworks.     ~ Leea Litzgus, ICCE Executive Director
Requirements to address cumulative effects are changing rapidly. This Guide will provide a much-needed practical tool for Indigenous communities across Canada, whether to inform their own efforts to address cumulative effects or to inform conversations with industry and Crown governments.
     ~ Alistair MacDonald, Director, Firelight Group
About the Authors
The Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects (ICCE) is an independent Indigenous-led organization that supports Indigenous communities undertaking cumulative effects work. ICCE mission is to create networks, and develop and share knowledge to empower community-based approaches to culturally relevant cumulative effects assessment, monitoring and management to support Indigenous well-being and decision-making. Our primary objective is to help build and enhance the technical and scientific capacity of Indigenous communities, based on the values of First Nations, MÃĐtis and Inuit communities across Canada. Â
The Firelight Group is an Indigenous-owned consulting group that works with Indigenous and local communities in Canada and beyond to provide high quality research, policy, planning, mapping, negotiation, and advisory services. Our work focuses on impact assessment, culture, health, socio-economics, ecology, and governance to support the rights and interests of Indigenous communities.