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21 Oct Accounting for Nature: The Kananaskis Conservation Pass

Posted at 16:00h in Conservation, Habitat, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation, Sustainable Communities by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Accounting for Nature: The Kananaskis Conservation Pass In 2022, the Environmental Law Centre (“ELC”) will be releasing a report about the funding of conservation. For our purposes, conservation funding broadly refers to...

13 Oct Reimagining Rivers: Animals as Legal Beings – Webinar October 29

Posted at 15:08h in Environmental Rights, Sustainable Communities, Water, Watershed management by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Reimagining Rivers: Animals as Legal Beings – Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders Friday, October 29 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MDT Professor Maneesha Deckha (UVic) and Assistant Professor Jessica Eisen (UAlberta)...

28 Sep Here Comes the Sun: Solar Access in Alberta

Posted at 16:49h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Here Comes the Sun: Solar Access in Alberta If you have been keeping up with the ELC blog, you may remember the first blog post we wrote about solar access, back...

21 Sep Leasing your Land for Solar Energy

Posted at 20:39h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Leasing your Land for Solar Energy In conjunction with our recently released report Here Comes the Sun: Solar Law in Alberta, we have released three topical guides, including one that provides some...

14 Sep Leasing your Condo for Solar Energy

Posted at 18:32h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Leasing your Condo for Solar Energy In conjunction with our recently released report Here Comes the Sun: Solar Law in Alberta, this topical guide provides a brief introduction to solar energy...

08 Sep So, you want to start a solar co-op?

Posted at 18:28h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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So, you want to start a solar co-op? In conjunction with our recently released report Here Comes the Sun: Solar Law in Alberta we have released a topical guide that looks more...

03 Sep Geothermal Resource Development in Alberta: The ELC’s comments on the Alberta Energy Regulator’s proposed directive

Posted at 14:41h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Energy, Geothermal by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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Geothermal Resource Development in Alberta: The ELC’s comments on the Alberta Energy Regulator’s proposed directive At the end of last year, the provincial government passed The Geothermal Resource Development Act (GRDA) which...

31 Aug New ELC Publication – Here Comes the Sun: Solar Law in Alberta

Posted at 18:16h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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New ELC Publication - Here Comes the Sun: Solar Law in Alberta [su_table responsive="yes"] [sdm_download id="94726" fancy="3"] [/su_table] The ELC is pleased to announce the publication of Here Comes the Sun: Solar Law in...

23 Aug Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying

Posted at 17:53h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Sustainable Communities by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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“Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change August 9, 2021 Press Release The impacts of climate change are becoming more apparent in our daily lives: increased forest fire activity,...

27 Jul Bank Swallows and Motorsports

Posted at 22:38h in Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation, Species at Risk, Sustainable Communities by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Bank Swallows and Motorsports: In the race to save species at risk, we need to pick up the pace This story, like many that deal with species at risk in Canada, is...

14 Jul On the Road to 2050: The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act

Posted at 16:29h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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On the Road to 2050: The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act On June 29, 2021, more than 7 months after first reading, Bill C-12 or the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act received...

13 Jul Coal Policy Engagement: Submissions to the Coal Policy Committee

Posted at 17:38h in Climate and Energy, Coal, Energy by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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Coal Policy Engagement: Submissions to the Coal Policy Committee The Environmental Law Centre made submissions to the Coal Policy Committee on April 19, 2021, participated in a consultation session on June...