Mr. Paul Cassidy at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

I think there are other ways to deal with the issues of fossil fuels and the issues you raised than the environmental assessment process. I'm not ruling out that the environmental assessment process can be used in that regard, but I think there are ways for those issues to be addressed that are more efficient than the environmental assessment process.

So I would not generally agree with the suggestion that stricter forms of environmental assessment are the best approaches for those issues.