If my experience in highway infrastructure is any guide, this is mostly futile. If they really want to slow it down, start with an environmental impact study. The best thing about it is the government has to pay for it and they are very subjective.
> If they really want to slow it down, start with an environmental impact study.
People who care about the environment should care that environmental impact studies are what they claim to be and not red tape bombs. People are supposed to be concerned about the outcome of them, not using them as a means to an unrelated end.
You can make a project take twice as long.