The Narwhal published an article about UBC research into environmental impact assessments.
Gerald Gurinder Singh, UBC senior research fellow in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, said the research found that experts providing the assessments used unscientific practices and biases.
“If an environmental impact, such as the release of pollutants which have human health consequences, is predicted to surpass a threshold of concern for human health, we would expect that that impact would be considered important or significant,” he said.