Report - Agence canadienne d'évaluation environnementale

Territorial context of the project
♦ Recommendation 3 — If the project is authorized and in order to attract companies
that must be physically in proximity to the project’s installations,, the Panel
recommends that in its land use planning and development plan now being revised,
the City of Lévis designates for industrial use of the land adjacent to the project. The
Panel also recommends that the City of Lévis include this land in the request for
exclusion that it will address to the Commission de protection du territoire agricole
du Québec.
Landscape
In this section, the Panel addresses project integration in the landscape unit to which
Ville-Guay belongs, as well as the visual analysis approach adopted by the
proponent. The following landscape components are considered by the Panel in its
analysis:
– The visual experience, in part based on the visible characteristics of the land.
– The landscape structure revealed by the interaction between human activity and
the environment and including biophysical and anthropogenic elements.
– The heritage value landscape in its multiple dimensions.
The Sustainable Development Act establishes a link between heritage, landscape,
and identity:
The cultural heritage, made up of property, sites, landscapes, traditions and
knowledge, reflects the identity of a society. It passes on the values of a society
from generation to generation, and the preservation of this heritage fosters the
sustainability of development. Cultural heritage components must be identified,
protected and enhanced, taking their intrinsic rarity and fragility into account.
(Section 6)
Beyond the qualified expert in visual assessment, it is widely accepted today that
local, regional, and national players contribute to defining, qualifying, and assessing
landscapes, since they are the ones who experience it. In this perspective, the
experts have more of a role in translating and reflecting the perceptions and
representations linked to the facts and realities experienced by these actors (Fortin,
2005) 1 .
1. M.-J. Fortin, Paysage industriel, lieu de médiation sociale et enjeu de développement durable et de justice
environnementale: les cas des complexes d’Alcan (Alma, Québec) et de Péchiney (Dunkerque, France), Doctoral
Thesis, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2005, p. 541.
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