OWC interviews ELC Counsel Adam Driedzic on Watershed Stewardship The Oldman Watershed Council (OWC) interviewed Adam Driedzic, Staff Counsel at the Environmental Law Center (ELC), for the film "Oldman Goes to...
Brenda Heelan Powell, ELC Counsel, participates in AER’s Best-in-Class Regulator Initiative Brenda Heelan Powell, Staff Counsel at the Environmental Law Center (ELC), has been selected to participate in the Alberta Energy...
ELC Counsel Jason Unger on Water Quality in Alberta Panel Discussion In celebration of Canadian Water Day last March 22, 2015, the Strathcona County invited Jason Unger, Staff Counsel at the...
Municipal Government Act Review Update: Bill 20 is introduced and it’s disappointing Earlier this month, the Alberta government introduced its proposed amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA) in the form...
And justice for whom? Questions of "standing" split the audience: Standing in Environmental Matters In late 2014 the Environmental Law Centre released what might be the first comprehensive Report on Standing in...
Springbank dry dam and environmental assessments In today’s Calgary Herald: “Prentice confident Springbank dry dam most cost-effective option to protect Calgary.” The article outlines the reasons behind building a dry reservoir around...
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...
Buyer Beware: What happened before on that property you're thinking about buying? Today’s Edmonton Journal features an article about Alberta Environment ordering Leduc County to clean up a former landfill and...
Canada needs to have a strong, ambitious national carbon pricing policy in time for the 2015 Paris climate change conference. ...
What Lies Beneath? Buyer Beware. ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTRE: The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) has been seeking strong and effective environmental laws since it was founded in 1982. The ELC is...
NEB begins cross-country consultation on pipeline safety The National Energy Board (the “NEB”) recently began its public engagement initiative relating to pipeline safety [the information about the cross-country engagement initiative in...
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 and contaminating your property. Think it...