Pictou County gas plants will not get full federal impact assessments, agency decides
The federal agency in charge of regulating complex industrial projects will not do a full assessment of two proposed natural gas power plants in Pictou County, N.S.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/impact-assessment-pictou-county-natural-gas-power-plants-9.7201345?cmp=rss

Impact assessments not required for Olds, Mihta Askiy data centres. Expert says legislation needs to catch up
Two more data centre projects in Alberta are not being required to complete formal impact assessments, which would evaluate factors such as environmental effects: Synapse’s data centre campus in Olds and the Woodland Cree First Nation-led Mihta Askiy data centre project.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/olds-mihta-askiy-data-centres-environmental-assessments-9.7167537?cmp=rss

Impact assessments not required for Olds, Mihta Askiy data centres. Expert says legislation needs to catch up
Two more data centre projects in Alberta are not being required to complete formal impact assessments, which would evaluate factors such as environmental effects: Synapse’s data centre campus in Olds and the Woodland Cree First Nation-led Mihta Askiy data centre project.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/olds-mihta-askiy-data-centres-environmental-assessments-9.7167537?cmp=rss

Has anyone worked on methods for supporting #auditors or governance representatives/ #impactassessments in determining whether the output of an #algorithmicsystems is "acceptable"? Say an #automatedhiringsystem has proven to be #discriminative. Developers can adjust this but only to a degree of 90% "fairness" without losing system "efficiency" . Who is to determine whether that is socially, ethically and morally "acceptable"? And how? @digitalisationofwork