Environmental Engineering Reference
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Table 3.3 continued
Agreement
Signatories/parties
Aim/scope
title/Date
MOU on Environmental Assessment
2001
- Deputy Minister, BC
Inter-jurisdictional cooperation (and
Environmental Assessment
information-sharing) regarding the practice
Office
of environmental assessment and
- Director, WA DOE
environmental review. Parties agree to give
prior notification and information-exchange
related to major project proposals in the
vicinity of the other jurisdiction
Implementing the MOU on Environmental
Assessment
2001
- Deputy Minister, BC
Background document for clarification of
Environmental Assessment
MOU. Facilitates information-sharing and
Office
mutual understanding of the Environmental
- Director, WA DOE
Assessment and Environmental Review
laws, policies, and processes of each
jurisdiction; facilitates notification and
information-exchange regarding major
project proposals in the vicinity of the other
jurisdiction. Aims to promote strong
communication between WA and BC
regarding major project proposals,
complements existing bilateral notification
arrangements between BC and WA
agencies
initiative has prioritized global climate change as an area of concern, and, in October
2013, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California signed the Pacific
Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, “a comprehensive and far-reaching
strategic alignment to combat climate change and promote clean energy” (Pacific
Coast Collaborative, 2013). The State of Alaska, however, did not participate in
this agreement.
Supranational governance: Commission for Environmental
Cooperation (CEC)
During the same period that regional participation in international environmental
governance was increasing in North America, supranational governance also began
to emerge. This shift in governance downwards to the local, and upwards to the
supranational - commonly referred to as “glocalization” (Swyngedouw, 1997) -
was present throughout North America in the late eighties and early nineties. The
creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1992 (enacted
in 1994) and its subsequent “green side agreement” exemplifies this shift in
governance.
 
 
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