Buying a Better Environment? Market-Based Instruments Project Backgrounder Now Available In Alberta, the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA) enables the use of Market-Based Instruments (MBIs) for conservation and stewardship purposes. However,...
Climate Change Law Blog Series: Cities and Climate Change This is the third post in the Environmental Law Centre’s new blog series exploring climate change law in Canada. This blog series will...
Biodiversity Management Framework The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) has been involved with the Land Use Framework (LUF) and Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA) from the beginning. Its activities have included commenting...
Climate Change Blog Series: Problems with Pesticides and Pipelines (Fall 2015 Report of Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development) This is the second post in the Environmental Law Centre’s blog...
Climate Change Law Blog Series: Climate Change Litigation in Canada This is the first post in the Environmental Law Centre’s new blog series exploring climate change law in Canada. This blog series...
A Solstice Jingle A light-hearted look back at 2015 is in order. (This time to “Jingle Bells” – nice and short to keep with solstice. This blog may be the counter...
Government as sole protector of instream flows: let’s expand who we trust Water Conservation Trust of Canada v Alberta (Environmental Appeals Board), 2015 ABQB 686. In 2010 the Water Conservation Trust of Canada...
ELC’s Executive Director has been selected as one of 40 Energy Future Lab Fellows We are pleased to announce that Josephine Victoria Yam, the Executive Director of the Environmental Law Centre (Alberta),...
Alberta releases its new Climate Leadership Plan The Alberta Government released its long anticipated Climate Leadership Plan yesterday. The policy is based upon the recommendations made by the Climate Change Advisory...
Alberta Energy Regulator receives the Final Report in the Best-in-Class Initiative The Final Report entitled Listening, Learning, and Leading: A Framework for Regulatory Excellence was released in late October. It was...
Conservation directives: an unknown and untested tool When we think of protecting Alberta’s landscapes there are a variety of tools that are quite well understood and used: parks on public land,...
What might the future of Canada’s environmental laws and policies hold? A look at the federal Liberal environmental platform This post provides an overview of the Liberal environmental platform which can be...