This month’s feature from the Canadian Environmental Law Archive is a speech delivered by CELA staff member John E. Low to the Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists at the National Research Council in Ottawa in 1974. Titled “Environmental Impact Assessment: The Law As It is and As It Should Be”, the speech was written in part by then researcher and now CELA counsel Joseph Castrilli and delivered a critical examination of federal and provincial procedure and legislative initiatives related to environmental impact assessment.