First Nations Oil And Gas Environmental Assessment Regulations (SOR/2007-272)

1 Construction, decommissioning or abandonment of a fossil fuel-fired electrical generating station with a production capacity of 200 MW or more.

2 Expansion of a fossil fuel-fired electrical generating station that would result in an increase in production capacity of 50% or more and 200 MW or more.

3 Construction of an electrical transmission line with a voltage of 345 kV or more that is 75 km or more in length on land that has not already been developed for a power line, pipeline, railway line or all-season public highway and that is not contiguous, for its whole length, to any other linear physical work.

4 Construction of an oil and gas pipeline that is more than 75 km in length on land that has not already been developed for a power line, pipeline, railway line or all-season public highway and that is not contiguous, for its whole length, to any other linear physical work.

5 Construction, decommissioning or abandonment of a facility for the extraction of 200 000 m³/year or more of ground water or an expansion of the facility that would result in an increase in production capacity of more than 35%.

6 Construction, decommissioning or abandonment of

• (a) a heavy oil or oil sands processing facility with an oil production capacity of more than 10 000 m³/d; or

• (b) an oil sands mine with a bitumen production capacity of more than 10 000 m³/d.

7 Expansion of a heavy oil or oil sands processing facility that would result in an increase in oil production capacity that would exceed 5 000 m³/d and that would raise the total oil production capacity to more than 10 000 m³/d.

8 Construction, decommissioning or abandonment, or an expansion that would result in an increase in production capacity of more than 35%, of

• (a) an oil refinery, including a heavy oil upgrader, with an input capacity of more than 10 000 m³/d; 

• (b) a sour gas processing facility with a sulphur inlet capacity of more than 2 000 t/d;

• (c) a facility for the liquefaction, storage or regasification of liquefied natural gas, with a liquefied natural gas processing capacity of more than 3 000 t/d or a liquefied natural gas storage capacity of more than 50 000 t;

• (d) a petroleum storage facility with a capacity of more than 500 000 m³; or

• (e) a liquefied petroleum gas storage facility with a capacity of more than 100 000 m³.