Author: Jason Unger

Polluter pays principle in Alberta: A state of and a foundation for the future?

The ELC ‘s most recent report The Polluter Pays Principle in Alberta Law provides a summary of the polluter pays principle in Alberta law. This report is provided as an introduction to the principle and how it is often operationalized in Alberta law. The report...

17 December, 2019 / 0 Comments

Habitat Matters: Habitat laws, challenges and new directions

Habitat Matters: Habitat laws, challenges and new directions Thank you for your interest in the Habitat Matters webinar that took place November 28. Link to the recording Link to the slide deck Habitat is essential to the survival of all species. Our activities across the landscape have...

04 November, 2019 / 2 Comments

Are We Just Winging It? Legislative protections for bats: A Bat Week Blog

Bat Week runs from October 24 to October 31st. Correction: An earlier version of this blog has been corrected to note that non-licenced animals may be hunted under s.24 of the Wildlife Act. Several bat species are listed as non-game animals and the prohibition against hunting...

29 October, 2019 / 2 Comments

Where to from here? SAVE THE DATE for Green Regs ‘n’ Ham Calgary October 24 2019

Alberta has a crisis on its hands. A mountain of environmental obligations exists across the Alberta landscape. These obligations take the form of abandonment and reclamation (and remediation) requirements for the oil and gas sector; a sector under a cash crunch. Low resource prices have pushed...

17 September, 2019 / 0 Comments

Legal Tools for a Healthy Environment: A WORKSHOP FOR ENGOS

The Environmental Law Centre and EcoJustice jointly present Legal Tools for a Healthy Environment: A WORKSHOP FOR ENGOS This one-day workshop, being held in both Calgary and Edmonton, is designed to help groups working in the environmental sector become more familiar with the legal tools available...

03 September, 2019 / 0 Comments

ELC Staff Counsel Posting – Edmonton AB

The Environmental Law Centre is seeking a lawyer with 3+ years of experience to fill a term position as Staff Counsel in our Edmonton office. Our activities focus on law reform, research and public legal education in areas of environmental and natural resources law. Staff Counsel...

02 May, 2019 / 0 Comments

ELC presents Green Regs and Ham: Coastal Conundrums April 15, Edmonton

THIS EVENT IS NOW OVER. FOR THE OCTOBER 24 2019 EVENT PLEASE VISIT: http://elc.ab.ca/where-to-from-here-save-the-date-for-green-regs-n-ham-calgary-october-24-2019-2/ NOTE - TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED Coastal environmental concerns are highly relevant to land locked Alberta, but rarely do we discuss them. Join the ELC and our guest speakers to look beyond Alberta’s...

18 March, 2019 / 0 Comments

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

ELC Regulatory Watch: Upcoming AER appeal will shed light on EPEA approval amendments

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) recently amended an Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (EPEA) approval to add conditions dealing with remediation of contamination at the Gibson Hardisty terminal. Gibson Energy is appealing the amendment, saying “the amendment decision contravenes EPEA and is outside of the...

30 November, 2018 / 0 Comments

Habitat, what habitat? The Greater Sage-Grouse emergency order and a call for heightened due diligence [Revised]

This story is about investing in activities that occur in the habitat of species at risk. It has a moral: stop doing it. This story features an oil and gas company, the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA), and insolvency – it is a story that...

15 November, 2018 / 0 Comments