ID: 1482
Presenting Author: Celesa Horvath
Session: 592 - Streamlining IA in an era of global uncertainty
Status: pending
Celesa Horvath brings a practitioner’s perspective to this panel exploring challenges and opportunities related to IA streamlining in the current political, economic, and regulatory context.
Consulting practitioners are at the working face of impact assessment (IA), directly involved in navigating the IA process, interpreting and implementing the governing legislation and regulations, and applying related guidance material developed by IA process administrators (such as the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and others). Through hands-on experience, practitioners offer a broad perspective informed by work on many projects, with public and private sector proponents, as well as Indigenous groups, across many economic sectors, in communities throughout the country. Practitioners are thus intimately familiar with the real-world practical challenges that arise in the IA process and factors that either contribute to, or undermine, its efficacy. Drawing on 35 years of experience, Celesa Horvath will bring a consulting practitioner’s perspective to this panel dialogue on streamlining, exploring the challenges and opportunities related to IA effectiveness and efficiency (read: timeliness) in the current political, economic, and regulatory context. Celesa will contribute to the discussion on what we mean by “streamlining,” what we’ve learned from past streamlining efforts, and how we might move forward to achieve a shared goal of improved IA: “Better. Faster. Together.”
Celesa Horvath is an independent consulting practitioner with 35 years’ experience in impact assessment and regulatory processes in mining, energy, infrastructure, and other sectors.