Lessons Learned from Canada's Record on Climate Change Join the Environmental Law Centre as we welcome Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD) to discuss federal climate change actions and their implications...
An update on the E.L. Smith Solar Farm: Case Comment on Edmonton River Valley Conservation Coalition Society v Council of the City of Edmonton In August 2021, we released our report “Here...
The Geothermal Resource Development Act, along with the Geothermal Resource Development Regulation and Geothermal Resource Tenure Regulation, is now in force In December of 2021, we published a brief examining Liability...
Still simmering… Alberta’s geothermal resources development regulatory scheme At the end of 2020, the Geothermal Resources Development Act (GRDA) was passed although it has not yet been proclaimed into force. The...
Policy Tools to Support Geothermal Resource Development Geothermal energy - that is, the heat energy generated and stored in the earth – has great potential as a relatively clean energy source....
Managing oil and gas liability in Alberta: Changes are being made (kind of) In July 2020, the Government of Alberta announced a new Liability Management Framework (LMF) which briefly sketched out...
Action on Climate Needed Now! The Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development releases his Fall 2021 Report Since 1995, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada has a mandate related to...
A Yearly Update on Climate Change Litigation, the 2021 Edition [perfectpullquote align="left" bordertop="true" cite="" link="" color="#42678f" class="" size="15"] If you are interested in reading about about climate change litigation cases we've...
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...
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...
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...
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...