Project description review (2013)
- September 2013: Project Description submitted to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA; now the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada or IAAC)
- September 2013: Public comment period on summary of the Project Description
Determination of environmental assessment (2013-2014)
- November 2013: Public comment period on draft Environmental Impact Statement Guidelines
- January 2014: Final Environmental Impact Statement Guidelines issued to port authority by CEAA
Development of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (2014)
- March 2014: Public comment period on draft Environmental Impact Statement Guidelines
- August 2014: Draft Review Panel Terms of Reference issued
Environmental Impact Statement completeness review (2015-2016)
- March 2015: Environmental Impact Statement submitted by port authority to CEAA
- April 2015: Updated Environmental Impact Statement Guidelines issued to port authority by CEAA
- April 2015: Public comment period on Environmental Impact Statement
- October 2015: Marine Shipping Addendumand information requests submitted by port authority
- November 2015: Public comment period on Marine Shipping Addendum
- February 2016: Additional information requests submitted by port authority
- April 2016: Marine Shipping Addendum information requests submitted by port authority
Independent review panel (2018-2019)
- May 2018: Independent review panel announced
- May 2016–February 2019: Sufficiency information requests submitted
- December 2018: Public comment period on sufficiency of information
- May–June 2019: Public hearing held in Delta, B.C.
- August 2019: Public record for the environmental assessment closes, independent review panel begins work on panel report
2020 and beyond
- March 2020: Federal Review Panel Report for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project submitted by the independent review panel to the minister of environment and climate change
- Summer—Fall 2020:
- Port authority undertakes work to complete the information request issued by the minister of environment and climate change Canada on August 24
- Impact Assessment Agency of Canada develops draft conditions. Once complete, draft conditions will be made available on the project registry
- The federal government consults with Indigenous groups about the review panel report and draft conditions
- Draft conditions are made available for public comment
- Fall—Winter 2020/2021:
- Port authority consults with Indigenous groups on the information requests and once feedback is incorporated submits information requests to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
- Impact Assessment Agency of Canada revises conditions based on the feedback received during the public comment period
- Spring—Summer 2021
- Minister of environment and climate change issues decision statement, with final conditions, for the project. If approved, the port authority must follow the final conditions provided by the minister.
