Strategic Environmental Assessments

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a broad-based approach to environmental assessment that examines the environmental effects which may be associated with a plan, program or policy proposal and that allows for the incorporation of environmental considerations at the earliest stages of program planning. SEA typically involves a broader-scale environmental assessment (EA) that considers the larger ecological setting, rather than a project-specific environmental assessment that focuses on site-specific issues with defined boundaries. The C-NLOPB decided in 2002 to conduct a SEA of portions of the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area that may have the potential for offshore oil and gas exploration activity but that were not subject to recent SEA nor to recent and substantial site-specific assessments.

战略环境评估（Strategic Environmental Assessment，SEA）是一种综合性环境评估方法，用于研判与规划、计划或政策提案相关的潜在环境影响，并支持在项目规划的最早阶段纳入环境考量因素。战略环境评估通常属于广域环境评估（Environmental Assessment，EA）的范畴，其考量的是更大范围的生态背景，而非聚焦于划定边界内场地特定问题的项目专项环境评估。加拿大-纽芬兰与拉布拉多省近海石油委员会（C-NLOPB）于2002年决定，对纽芬兰与拉布拉多省近海海域中具备近海油气勘探活动潜力，但既未开展过近期战略环境评估，也未接受过近期且实质性场地专项评估的部分区域，开展战略环境评估工作。