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12 Apr Announcing the ELC’s Upcoming Webinar Series

Posted at 20:10h in About ELC, Climate and Energy, Environmental Rights, Nature and Biodiversity, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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The Environmental Law Centre is pleased to announce a new webinar series. The webinars are based on current areas of focus at the ELC and seek to address how laws and...

14 Feb Bill 69 and the Impact Assessment Act: public trust regained or more of the same

Posted at 21:00h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Cumulative Effects, Environmental Assessment, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Bill 69 and the Impact Assessment Act: public trust regained or more of the same The Government of Canada’s promise to review the 2012 changes to various federal environmental laws has now...

31 Jan Going, Going… Gone: Stopping the Loss of Agricultural Lands in Alberta

Posted at 16:21h in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Sustainable Communities by Brenda Heelan Powell 3 Comments

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Going, Going… Gone Moving from Conversion to Conservation: Stopping the Loss of Agricultural Lands in Alberta Loss of Agricultural Lands In late 2017, the Alberta Land Institute issued its Economic Evaluation of Farmland Conversion...

19 Dec Amendments to the Environmental Powers of Municipalities

Posted at 17:15h in Cumulative Effects, Environmental Rights, Land Use, Market Based Instruments, Municipal Government Act, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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Amendments to the Environmental Powers of Municipalities: What has Changed? What Changes are on their Way? Municipal powers for environmental protection and stewardship Municipalities play a key role in managing and protecting Alberta’s environment through...

10 Oct It’s a wrap: Hockey Fights and Contaminated Sites

Posted at 20:52h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Cumulative Effects, Energy, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Rights, Land Use, Municipal Government Act, Pollution & Emissions, Sustainable Communities by Kara Tersen 0 Comments

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A wrap-up from October 3rd Green Regs 'n' Ham Who landed in the penalty box? Tackling a topic that is of increasing concern to Albertans was on the agenda for an early...

22 Dec Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act

Posted at 15:28h in Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Market Based Instruments, Municipal Government Act, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Environmental Law Centre 0 Comments

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Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act The ELC is publishing a series of four volumes concerning Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act. This work is to encourage the...

19 Dec ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN ALBERTA: Module 3: Citizen Enforcement

Posted at 23:17h in Environmental Rights, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Environmental Law Centre 6 Comments

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Substantive environmental rights are not overly common and there are no rights to environmental quality in Alberta or Canada for that matter. This environmental rights module canvasses some of...

16 Dec ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN ALBERTA: Module 2: Third Party Oversight

Posted at 21:23h in Environmental Rights, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Environmental Law Centre 4 Comments

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Substantive environmental rights are not overly common and there are no rights to environmental quality in Alberta or Canada for that matter. This environmental rights module canvasses some of...

14 Dec ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN ALBERTA: Module 1: Substantive Environmental Rights

Posted at 16:41h in Environmental Rights, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Environmental Law Centre 5 Comments

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Substantive environmental rights are not overly common and there are no rights to environmental quality in Alberta or Canada for that matter. This environmental rights module canvasses some of...

08 Dec ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN ALBERTA Phase I: Do We Have the Rights We Need?

Posted at 21:50h in Environmental Rights, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 7 Comments

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In this paper, we look at what is a right to a healthy environment and why is it important. We examine what environmental rights look like, and look at procedural...

23 Nov MGA Review and Municipal Environmental Stewardship: You can still have your say

Posted at 16:39h in Climate and Energy, Municipal Government Act, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Environmental Law Centre 0 Comments

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MGA Review and Municipal Environmental Stewardship: You can still have your say On November 22, 2016, the Government of Alberta continued its review and amendment process for the Municipal Government Act...

05 Jul Mind the Gap: the Municipal Government Act needs to bridge environmental management

Posted at 14:45h in Municipal Government Act, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Mind the Gap: The Municipal Government Act needs to bridge environmental management The ongoing review of Alberta’s Municipal Government Act (MGA), along with the proposed amendments introduced in Bill 21 this spring,...