Author: Leah Orr

  • Environmental Assessment, Uncategorized, Water
  • Blogs
Springbank dry dam and environmental assessments

Springbank dry dam and environmental assessments   In today’s Calgary Herald: “Prentice confident Springbank dry dam most cost-effective option to...

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  • Land Use, Public Participation
  • Blogs
Calmar: What lies beneath?

Calmar: What lies beneath?   Yesterday the Edmonton Journal ran a piece called “Five years, five homes demolished and gas...

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  • Public Participation
What’s standing and why should you care?

What’s standing and why should you care?   When the lawyers were figuring out a theme for this issue of...

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  • Environmental Assessment
Environmental Assessment Changes: Will They Affect You? (Webinar)

Environmental Assessment Changes: Will They Affect You? (Webinar)   Are you confused about how recent changes in Environmental Assessment law...

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  • Land Use
Property rights vs. planning shouldn’t be a battle to the death

Property rights vs. planning shouldn’t be a battle to the death   What we do with our land is constrained...

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  • Public Participation, Species at Risk, Water
  • Climate Change and Energy
Updates

Updates   Here are some updates on previous blog posts compiled by Laura Bowman, Staff Counsel at the ELC: The...

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  • Environmental Assessment, Species at Risk, Water
  • Pollution and Human Health
We need an independent environmental protection and monitoring agency with teeth

We need an independent environmental protection and monitoring agency with teeth   By Laura Bowman Staff Counsel Given all of...

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  • General
  • Climate Change and Energy
Leah’s picks for the 2010 ClawBies

Leah’s picks for the 2010 ClawBies   (In case you don’t know about them, you can read about the CLawBies...

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  • Public Participation
Thinking outside the (single-use) bag: How Fort Mac’s ban came to be

Thinking outside the (single-use) bag: How Fort Mac’s ban came to be   Sean Graham is the driving force behind...

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  • Public Participation
Feds gut environmental assessment (again). Public in the dark (again).

Feds gut environmental assessment (again). Public in the dark (again).   By Adam Driedzic Staff Counsel, Environmental Law Centre You...

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