Do Courts Take Judicial Notice of Climate Change? At the recent 2015 Canadian Bar Association Symposium on "Environment in the Courtroom” in Calgary, I delivered a presentation on the topic “Judicial Notice of...
OWC interviews ELC Counsel Adam Driedzic on Watershed Stewardship The Oldman Watershed Council (OWC) interviewed Adam Driedzic, Staff Counsel at the Environmental Law Center (ELC), for the film "Oldman Goes to...
Brenda Heelan Powell, ELC Counsel, participates in AER’s Best-in-Class Regulator Initiative Brenda Heelan Powell, Staff Counsel at the Environmental Law Center (ELC), has been selected to participate in the Alberta Energy...
ELC Counsel Jason Unger on Water Quality in Alberta Panel Discussion In celebration of Canadian Water Day last March 22, 2015, the Strathcona County invited Jason Unger, Staff Counsel at the...
Buyer Beware: What happened before on that property you're thinking about buying? Today’s Edmonton Journal features an article about Alberta Environment ordering Leduc County to clean up a former landfill and...
Canada needs to have a strong, ambitious national carbon pricing policy in time for the 2015 Paris climate change conference. ...
What Lies Beneath? Buyer Beware. ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTRE: The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) has been seeking strong and effective environmental laws since it was founded in 1982. The ELC is...
What Lies Beneath? Buyer Beware. It’s every homeowner’s nightmare: You buy a home, move in, then find out there’s an abandoned gas well beneath, leaking and contaminating your property. Think it...
Environmental Site Assessment Repository Search Service We are very pleased to announce a new Environmental Law Centre service! The Environmental Site Assessment Repository Search is a search of Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development's...
ELC Blog - 2014 in review The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people....
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Cindy Chiasson to bid farewell to the ELC After 17 years of outstanding leadership, Executive Director Cindy Chiasson will bid farewell to the ELC this autumn. The board and staff commend...