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  2. Independent Electricity System Operator - Wikipedia

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    The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is the Crown corporation responsible for operating the electricity market and directing the operation of the bulk electrical system in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is one of seven independent system operators in North America.

  3. Strategic environmental assessment - Wikipedia

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    The European Union Directive on Environmental Impact Assessments (85/337/EEC,also known as the EIA Directive) only applied to certain projects. [3] This was seen as deficient as it only dealt with specific effects at the local level whereas many environmentally damaging decisions had already been made at a more strategic level (for example the fact that new infrastructure may generate an ...

  4. Midcontinent Independent System Operator - Wikipedia

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    The system has been in operation since December 31, 2003. It serves as the primary management tool for the reliability of transmission facilities throughout the organization's footprint. The State Estimator is one of the world's largest computer systems and provides 303,800 data points that are updated every 5 seconds.

  5. Impact assessment - Wikipedia

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    If the assessment is favourable, and the proposed policy is enacted—after a suitable length of time for the policy to gain traction—it might be followed by an impact evaluation; ideally, assessed impacts before the fact and evaluated impacts after the fact are not wildly divergent. In some cases, impact becomes politicized due to a change ...

  6. Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act

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    The Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act (French: Loi sur l’évaluation d’impact and Loi sur la Régie canadienne de l’énergie), also referred to as Bill C-69, are two acts of the Parliament of Canada passed together by the 42nd Canadian Parliament in 2019. The Acts gave authority to the federal government to consider ...

  7. Environmental impact assessment - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Impact Assessment Law (EIA Law) requires that an environmental impact assessment be completed prior to project construction. However, if a developer completely ignores this requirement and builds a project without submitting an environmental impact statement, the only penalty is that the environmental protection bureau (EPB ...

  8. IESO - Wikipedia

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    The acronym IESO could refer to: International Earth Science Olympiad , an annual competition for secondary school students. Independent Electricity System Operator , the Crown corporation responsible for overseeing the bulk electrical system in Ontario, Canada.

  9. International Association for Impact Assessment - Wikipedia

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    [3] [19] IAIA prepared a monograph on social impact assessment for the National Marine Fisheries Service in 1993/1994. [20] Delaware Health and Social Services cited an IAIA paper in its fact sheet on health impact assessment. [21] The World Health Organization lists the IAIA among the "Other organizational links" in the arena of impact ...