(a) "air" means open or outside air not enclosed in a building or other human-made structure;
(b) "board" means an environmental assessment board appointed under section 24;
(c) "committee" means an assessment committee appointed under section 22;
(d) "department" means the Department of Environment and Lands;
(e) "environment" includes
(i) air, land or water,
(ii) plant and animal life, including human life,
(iii) the social, economic, recreational, cultural and aesthetic conditions and factors that influence the life of humans or a community,
(iv) a building, structure, machine or other device or thing made by humans,
(v) a solid, liquid, gas, odour, heat, sound, vibration or radiation resulting directly or indirectly from the activities of humans, or
(vi) a part or combination of those things referred to in subparagraphs (i) to (v) and the interrelationships between 2 or more of them;
(f) "environmental assessment" means a process by which the environmental impact of an undertaking is predicted and evaluated before the undertaking has begun or occurred;
(g) "environmental impact" means a change in the present or future environment that would result from an undertaking;
(h) "environmental impact statement" means a report that presents the results of a complete environmental assessment;
(i) "environmental preview report" means a report that presents the results of a preliminary environmental assessment based only on readily available information, and in which certain essential subjects may be incompletely treated due to a lack of data;
(j) "land" includes enclosed land, land covered by water, subsoil and all matter beneath the subsoil;
(k) "minister" means the Minister of Environment and Lands;
(l) "proponent" means a person who
(i) carries out or proposes to carry out an undertaking, or
(ii) is the owner or person having charge, management or control of an undertaking;
(m) "undertaking" means an enterprise, activity, project, structure, work, policy, proposal, plan or program that may, in the opinion of the minister, have a significant environmental impact and includes a modification, an extension, an abandonment, a demolition and a rehabilitation of that enterprise, activity, project, structure, work, policy, proposal, plan or program; and
(n) "water" means a surface or subterranean source of fresh or salt water within the jurisdiction of the province, whether that source usually contains water or not, and includes water above the bed of the sea that is within the jurisdiction of the province a river, stream, brook, creek, watercourse, lake, pond, spring, lagoon, ravine, gully, canal and other flowing or standing water and the land usually or at any time occupied by such a body of water.