Environmental Impact Assessment
Management Planning
Marconi National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan
The management plan for Marconi NHSC underwent an environmental assessment review in accordance with theCabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan, and Program Proposals. The environmental assessment was conducted before the management plan was finalized.
Results of the assessment indicate that the overall direction in the management plan, established through specific site management goals and management directions, is aimed at protection of cultural resources. Proposed projects are modest but designed to ensure protection of artifacts and improve visitation and visitor services. Realization of the vision for the site and implementation of the management plan goals and directions will increase the level of cultural resource protection and thus commemorative integrity at Marconi NHSC. Natural resource attributes of the site are unimpressive but nothing proposed in the plan is expected to result in further degradation of the natural resources on the site itself or beyond. Operation of the site is expected to continue to support local tourism.
Proposals described in the management plan for Marconi NHSC are quite modest and strategic. As more detailed information becomes available, any triggered projects will be assessed as required under theCanadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA). The Parks Canada Agency as a Responsible Authority under the CEAA will not undertake any project on the site prior to environmental assessment.
Only one project proposed in the management plan for Marconi NHSC – the installation of new signage – is expected to trigger the CEAA. Parks Canada will consider the findings of the CEAA environmental assessment prior to deciding on a course of action to approve, modify or abandon this or any other triggered projects on the site that may arise in the future.
In summary, the vision, the goals and the management directions identified in the management plan for Marconi NHSC are expected to have neutral direct and cumulative effects on ecological values and positive direct and cumulative effects on cultural resources, commemorative integrity, and socio-economic values.