Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan: An Update on Law and Policy Developments Over the past 18 months we have seen a rapidly changing law and policy landscape for climate change mitigation in Alberta. The...
Climate Change Blog Series: The ELC releases its latest paper in the Climate Change Legal Roadmap series: Oil Sands Emission Limit under the Climate Change Leadership Plan This blog is part of the Environmental...
Should Canada Follow Trump’s Paris Agreement Withdrawal?: The Precautionary Principle will Guide Us Written By: Jacob Marchel (Jacob Marchel has been a Student-at-Law with the ELC since October 2016. He has done...
Climate Change Blog Series: Federal Government releases its Technical Paper on the Federal Carbon Pricing Backstop This blog is part of the Environmental Law Centre’s blog series exploring climate change law in...
Highlights of Federal Environmental Legislation Reviews: Reports released for the Environmental Assessment, the National Energy Board, the Navigation Protection Act and Fisheries Act Reviews The Government of Canada is currently reviewing several...
NOW HIRING - STAFF COUNSEL The Environmental Law Centre is looking to expand its team in championing for law, policy and legal processes that protect our environment. We are seeking a...
Welcome Jason Unger as ELC’s new Executive Director Perhaps you’ve read a few of Jason’s blog posts and wondered about his unique sense of humour and talent with the written word....
Whirling disease and the law: a call for precautionary environmental management on World Water Day Invasive species are a huge challenge for our ever shrinking world. Whirling disease being found in the...
Supreme Court of Canada issues Decision in Jessica Ernst’s Claim for Charter Damages On January 13th, in Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision regarding...
Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act The ELC is publishing a series of four volumes concerning Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act. This work is to encourage the...
Climate Change Blog Series: Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change This is the fifteenth post in the Environmental Law Centre’s blog series exploring climate change law in Canada. This blog...
Substantive environmental rights are not overly common and there are no rights to environmental quality in Alberta or Canada for that matter. This environmental rights module canvasses some of...