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18 Mar The right to water: World water scarcity makes the right to access a key question
Sheryle Carlson VUE Weekly As we enter into yet another spring facing a global water crisis, March 22nd marks the United Nations designated World Water Day. The...
16 Mar Lake Ontario Waterkeeper podcast on environmental prosecutions
Environmental prosecutions are making headlines again as Syncrude finds itself in court in Alberta. The company has contaminated ponds at its tar sands site in...
10 Mar View or download materials from the March 10th Bill 50 webinar
In late 2009 the Alberta Government passed the Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50). This Act instituted significant changes for transmission line approval processes in...
08 Mar News Brief takes a short vacation
The ELC will be taking a bit of a break from publishing News Brief in order to evaluate and consider options for restructuring. We will...
04 Mar Syncrude muddies the waters
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in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Energy, Pollution & Emissions, Water
by Environmental Law Centre
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It’s “like” unconstitutional. On March 1, 2010, trial began for the death of 1,600 ducks in a tailing pond at the Syncrude Aurora mine north...
04 Mar Alberta Utilities Commission releases Heartland Information Session schedule
Read the release on the Alberta Utilities Commission website. If you're interested in how Bill 50 affects participation opportunities in projects like Heartland, you may want...
04 Mar View or download materials from February 25th Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making in Alberta – Part IV Webinar
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in Environmental Assessment, Public Participation
by Environmental Law Centre
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Court: the last resort. You opposed Alberta Environment’s decision to approve or refuse a regulated activity. Maybe there was no environmental impact assessment. Maybe an...
02 Mar Syncrude in court for tailings pond incident
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in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Energy, Pollution & Emissions, Water
by Environmental Law Centre
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By Jessica Earle ctvedmonton.ca March 1, 2010 On Monday afternoon, lawyers made opening statements in what's expected to be a lengthy trial looking into the role Canada's largest...
02 Mar Bill 50 delivers shocks to transmission approvals in Alberta (Webinar) March 10th
[caption id="attachment_47" align="alignright" width="197" caption="Photo by by Simon Howden"][/caption] In late 2009 the Alberta Government passed the Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50). This Act...
01 Mar Public Participation Guide – Q&A
How does reviewing a board decision on a preliminary matter like standing differ from reviewing the substantive outcome of a hearing? On February 25,...
28 Feb Governments must assess the environmental impacts of a whole project MiningWatch Canada v. Canada (Fisheries and Oceans)
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in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Environmental Assessment, Land Use
by Environmental Law Centre
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In January the Supreme Court of Canada released a unanimous decision in the case of MiningWatch Canada v. Canada (Fisheries and Oceans), (2010 SCC 2)....