Pollution Pocketbook #2: Polluter Pays Principle - Determining when polluters should pay -- "there's no free lunch" Pollution pocketbook is a short blog series regarding how our laws and policies incorporate the...
Our North Saskatchewan Region: ELC launches regional plan information website (but will there be a plan?) Where will the province's regional plans be going with the new government? It’s anyone’s guess at...
From Platform to Policy? Where might environmental policy be heading? The election is behind us and a new majority government is before us. There will undoubtedly be a time of listening...
Pollution Pocketbook #1: Who pays for pollution? Pollution pocketbook is a short blog series regarding how our laws and policies incorporate the polluter pays principle. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="270"] Imperial Refinery,...
Paying for pollution: who should be on the hook for environmental harm? Our lives invariably cause a level of pollution: we drive, we use chemicals to clean our clothes and our...
Of backhoes and water woes: reviewing the breadth of landscaping regulation under the Water Act We are not all hydrologists or hydrogeologists and this is likely a good thing (otherwise we...
Green Regs and Ham: Alberta Energy Regulator Year in Review 6/5/2014 Last month, over 100 environmental nonprofit leaders, regulatory lawyers and industry representatives gathered together to enjoy Green Regs & Ham in...
Wellsite ordered reclaimed: in for a penny, now about that pound While the recently issued Environmental Protection Order that mandates the reclamation of an abandoned wellsite is a good step for the site...
Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act regulations: do the feds want “out” of s.91(12) of the Constitution Act? Section 91 (12) of Canada’s Constitution clearly states that “Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries” are...
2013: environmental law and policy, the year in brief ...
Grousing about the value of species or “how much for that caribou in the window?” The first emergency protection order under the federal Species at Risk Act was issued last week...
A confidential mess: The problem with confidentiality when cleaning up pollution Case comment re Imperial Oil Limited v Calgary (City), 2013 ABQB 393 (CanLII). When a polluter contaminates the environment should we know...