Ben Parfitt: Secret deals exempting some projects from environmental review need to stop

B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office bills itself as a “neutral” provincial agency.
But there is evidence that this is not the case, and that Environment Minister George Heyman — who is tasked with “revitalizing” B.C.’s environmental assessment law — needs to make serious reforms.
When a public regulator makes major decisions behind closed doors that favour corporate interests and does not even notify the public, we have a problem.
When that happ