Author: Environmental Law Centre

2015- Conservation Directives: Alberta’s unknown and untested conservation tool
Pollution Pocketbook #2: Determining when polluters should pay — “there’s no free lunch”

Pollution Pocketbook #2: Polluter Pays Principle – Determining when polluters should pay — “there’s no free lunch”   Pollution pocketbook...

Our North Saskatchewan Region: ELC launches regional plan information website (but will there be a plan?)

Our North Saskatchewan Region: ELC launches regional plan information website (but will there be a plan?)   Where will the...

From Platform to Policy? Where might environmental policy be heading?

From Platform to Policy? Where might environmental policy be heading?   The election is behind us and a new majority...

Pollution Pocketbook #1: Who pays for pollution?

Pollution Pocketbook #1: Who pays for pollution?   Pollution pocketbook is a short blog series regarding how our laws and...

Paying for pollution: who should be on the hook for environmental harm

Paying for pollution: who should be on the hook for environmental harm?   Our lives invariably cause a level of...

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...

Of backhoes and water woes: reviewing the breadth of landscaping regulation under the Water Act.

Of backhoes and water woes: reviewing the breadth of landscaping regulation under the Water Act   We are not all...

2015 – Model for Harmonized Provincial Environmental and Sustainability Assessment
2015 – Buyer Beware: Where and how to find environmental information about a property in Alberta
2015-In Water We Trust Bibliography
2015- In Water We Trust Appendix A (Alberta Law and Policy for the Protection of Environmental Flows)
2015- In Water We Trust Appendix B ( A Review of Water Market Impacts)
2014 – Standing in Environmental Matters
News Brief – October 2014

MGA review, dry dams and upcoming challenges

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Green Regs and Ham: Alberta Energy Regulator Year in Review

Green Regs and Ham: Alberta Energy Regulator Year in Review   6/5/2014 Last month, over 100 environmental nonprofit leaders, regulatory...

News Brief – April 2014

Municipal powers, reclamation orders and the effects of AER

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Wellsite ordered reclaimed: in for a penny, now about that pound

Wellsite ordered reclaimed: in for a penny, now about that pound   While the recently issued Environmental Protection Order that...

Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act regulations: do the feds want “out” of s.91(12) of the Constitution Act?

Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act regulations: do the feds want “out” of s.91(12) of the Constitution Act?   Section 91 (12)...

News Brief – March 2014

Who wants to know about oil spills?

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News Brief – February 2014

Buyer Beware, Backhoes and Water Woes

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