Author: Brenda Heelan Powell

Updates on Oil & Gas Liability and Rehabilitation in Alberta

Updates on Oil & Gas Liability and Rehabilitation in Alberta   It is no secret that Alberta has an oil...

Optimizing Alberta Parks?? Without Public Consultation, the Government has announced removal of 175 sites from the parks system

Optimizing Alberta Parks?? Without Public Consultation, the Government has announced removal of 175 sites from the parks system As a...

A bad start to Environment Week: Alberta rescinds its Coal Policy

A bad start to Environment Week: Alberta rescinds its Coal Policy   Last week we celebrated Environment Week but the...

Let’s Show our Love for Wetlands

Let’s Show our Love for Wetlands   While February is best known for celebrating love on Valentines’ Day, it is...

Moving from Conversion to Conservation: ELC publishes Agricultural Lands Law and Policy in Alberta

Moving from Conversion to Conservation: ELC publishes Agricultural Lands Law and Policy in Alberta   Alberta’s agricultural lands support numerous...

Where to from here? More Green Regs and Ham in Calgary (October 24, 2019)

Where to from here?   More Green Regs and Ham in Calgary (October 24, 2019) On October 24, 2019 the...

Impact Assessment, the Canadian Energy Regulator & Navigable Waters:

Impact Assessment, the Canadian Energy Regulator & Navigable Waters:   An Overview of what was Bill C-69 and now is...

Loss Prevention vs. Replacement: Alberta Needs a Policy Framework for Sustainable Agriculture

Loss Prevention vs. Replacement: Alberta Needs a Policy Framework for Sustainable Agriculture   The ELC’s Role in Moving from Conversion...

Moving from Conversion to Conservation: Intermunicipal Planning and Agricultural Lands

Moving from Conversion to Conservation: Intermunicipal Planning and Agricultural Lands   Alberta has lost and continues to lose valuable agricultural...

The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Reports: Fall 2018 Edition

The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Reports: Fall 2018 Edition   In late 2018, the Commissioner of Environment...

ELC Regulatory Watch: Municipality denies wind farm permit

ELC Regulatory Watch: MD of Pincher Creek denies Windy Point Wind Farm Development Permits   As part of the Alberta...

Alberta Energy Regulator finalizes new Methane Requirements for Upstream Oil and Gas

Alberta Energy Regulator finalizes new Methane Requirements for Upstream Oil and Gas   As set out in Alberta Energy Regulator...

Environmental Rights in Alberta: Follow up on ELC’s Webinar on the Interaction of Environmental Rights & Property Rights

Environmental Rights in Alberta: Follow up on ELC’s Webinar on the Interaction of Environmental Rights & Property Rights   On...

Environmental Rights in Alberta: The Interaction of Environmental Rights & Property Rights

Environmental Rights in Alberta: The Interaction of Environmental Rights & Property Rights   As part of our series of educational...

Spring Reports of the CESD

Spring Reports of the CESD   The Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD) recently released her Spring 2018 Reports....

Competing Methane Regulations: Alberta and Canada Release Methane Regulations in the Same Week

Competing Methane Regulations: Alberta and Canada Release Methane Regulations in the Same Week   One of the pillars of the...

Picking up the PACE and Running with City Charters

Picking up the PACE and Running with City Charters: Update on Municipal Government Act   As has been covered in...

An Environmental Bill of Rights for Alberta

In addition to our series of educational materials concerning legal rights related to environmental quality, the Environmental Law Centre has...

Back to what we once HADD (plus more)

Back to what we once HADD: Fisheries Act Amendments are Introduced   Since the 1970s, section 35 of the Fisheries...

An Update on the Federal Carbon Pricing Backstop

An Update on the Federal Carbon Pricing Backstop: Draft Legislation and a Regulatory Framework Released   The need for a...

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

  Going, Going… Gone Moving from Conversion to Conservation: Stopping the Loss of Agricultural Lands in Alberta   Loss of...

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