Springbank dry dam and environmental assessments In today’s Calgary Herald: “Prentice confident Springbank dry dam most cost-effective option to protect Calgary.” The article outlines the reasons behind building a dry reservoir around...
Calmar: What lies beneath? Yesterday the Edmonton Journal ran a piece called “Five years, five homes demolished and gas keeps bubbling from the deep.” It’s a story about any homeowner’s nightmare:...
What's standing and why should you care? When the lawyers were figuring out a theme for this issue of News Brief, I couldn’t bring myself to tell them I didn’t know...
Environmental Assessment Changes: Will They Affect You? (Webinar) Are you confused about how recent changes in Environmental Assessment law will affect your practice? Can we expect federal Environmental Assessments to be...
Property rights vs. planning shouldn’t be a battle to the death What we do with our land is constrained in many ways, whether on our own volition as landowners, through common...
Updates Here are some updates on previous blog posts compiled by Laura Bowman, Staff Counsel at the ELC: The David Suzuki v. Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (Killer Whale protection) case...
We need an independent environmental protection and monitoring agency with teeth By Laura Bowman Staff Counsel Given all of the recent reports on the Oilsands released late last year, including the Royal Society...
Leah's picks for the 2010 ClawBies (In case you don't know about them, you can read about the CLawBies here.) First things first. I’m not a lawyer. (I'm in communications.) But, because...
Thinking outside the (single-use) bag: How Fort Mac’s ban came to be Sean Graham is the driving force behind the Single-Use Shopping Bag Bylaw that came into effect in the Regional Municipality...
Feds gut environmental assessment (again). Public in the dark (again). By Adam Driedzic Staff Counsel, Environmental Law Centre You don’t have to be an environmentalist to be concerned with this one. For the second...