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Future Flows: maintaining environmental flows through precaution and adaptation

The Environmental Law Centre is calling for a rethinking of water law and policy in Alberta. The ELC's report Future Flows: climate resilience, environmental flows and Alberta’s water law explores existing legal mechanisms to deal with maintaining and restoring environmental flows in our rivers and...

28 January, 2019 / 0 Comments

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 come to fruition (see our summary of the 2012 changes here and here). This review included looking at the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, the...

14 February, 2018 / 0 Comments

Climate Change Law Blog Series: The Paris Agreement and the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy

This is the fifth post in the Environmental Law Centre’s blog series exploring climate change law in Canada. This blog series provides updates on climate change law developments and includes insights from our related law reform research. This blog series is generously funded by the...

02 May, 2016 / 3 Comments

What would a good law look like? A Model Environmental and Sustainability Assessment Law may hold the answer.

Federal omnibus budget bills passed in 2012 brought dramatic changes to environmental regulation, particularly in the area of environmental assessments. Many of us are wondering what this means for environmental protection in Canada. This remains to be seen, and leaves us with another question: What...

15 March, 2013 / 1 Comment

Creditor protection versus polluter pays: Laws leave environment cash strapped

The Environmental Law Centre promotes the polluter pays principle as central to effective environmental law. Inherent in the polluter pays principle is the assumption that, if you can’t afford to clean up a mess, you shouldn’t be in business to begin with. Of course nothing...

14 December, 2012 / 1 Comment

The land gives us more than food, but can the law give back?

Published in LawNow, May/June 2012 By Adam Driedzic, Staff Counsel, Environmental Law Centre Set foot on Ruzicka Sunrise Farm and something feels different. Whether it is the diversity of birds, the native prairie, or dugouts that test cleaner than some municipal water sources,...

09 May, 2012 / 1 Comment

Core Environmental Principles for Environmental Laws, Policies and Legal Processes

The Environmental Law Centre recognizes that the environment is a public good that must be protected. The Environmental Law Centre’s Strategic Plan 2012-2015 references several core environmental principles that are required for strong and effective environmental laws, policies and legal processes. These core principles are: sustainability, precautionary...

14 February, 2012 / 0 Comments

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