03 Mar Buying a Better Environment?
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...
Land Use
04 Feb Biodiversity Management Framework
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....
12 Nov Conservation directives: an unknown and untested tool
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...
19 Oct Quick update on Municipal Government Act Review Update
Quick update on Municipal Government Act Review Update Earlier in the year, prior to the provincial election, several amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA) were...
13 May Our North Saskatchewan Region: ELC launches regional plan information website (but will there be a plan?)
Our North Saskatchewan Region: ELC launches regional plan information website (but will there be a plan?) Where will the province's regional plans be going with the new...
17 Apr Fracking Fall Out
Controversial spin-off industries expose gaps in regulation Click Here for some media coverage about a dispute over the storage of fracking sand in Penhold, Alberta. Here is...
15 Apr 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 Hollywood", a visual...
30 Mar Municipal Government Act Review Update: Bill 20 is introduced and it’s disappointing
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Earlier this month, the Alberta government introduced its proposed amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA) in the form of Bill 20: Municipal Government Amendment...
02 Mar 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 homes, we use a seemingly never...
02 Feb 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 this...
28 Jan Of backhoes and water woes: reviewing the breadth of landscaping regulation under the Water Act.
We are not all hydrologists or hydrogeologists and this is likely a good thing (otherwise we might all tell jokes like this: “What's the difference...
26 Jan The Regional ‘Plan to Plan’
South Saskatchewan Plan Avoids the Hard Choices In September 2014 the Government of Alberta released the first South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (SSRP) made under the Alberta...