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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I deal with it a lot as well and it is really horrible. Not the actual environmental assessments themselves, but the amount of time that it takes to get responses and the lack of flexibility in the system. They took science out of it, and made it so process driven that it is hard to move forward on them.
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The assessment tools themselves are atrocious now that the so-called social license has become paramount, and often, would negate or counter findings from the biophysical assessment.
The inclusion of TEK is/was/and will always be a blatant political maneuver designed to funnel money discretely to the bands.