Nature and Biodiversity

18 Oct Federal role in assessing project impacts is reset, not rejected, by Supreme Court of Canada

Posted at 22:09h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Cumulative Effects, Environmental Assessment, Fisheries, Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity, Public Participation by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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Authors: Brenda Heelan Powell & Jason Unger Has the Supreme Court of Canada dismantled the foundation of federal project assessments or have we simply reset the foundation of the past? Alberta...

23 Feb Species at Risk and Water & Fisheries Management

Posted at 21:35h in Conservation, Constitution, Fisheries, Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity, Water, Water management by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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The Environment & The Constitution Series: Species at Risk and Water & Fisheries Management AN ELC REPORT SERIES The ELC is pleased to present a series of reports and webinars in relation...

16 Feb Battleground Environment

Posted at 19:40h in Conservation, Constitution, Fisheries, Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity, Water, Water management by Rebecca Kauffman 2 Comments

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Battleground Environment Deconstructing Environmental Jurisdiction under the Canadian Constitution BACKGROUNDER TO AN ELC REPORT SERIES The environment and all that it entails does not specifically appear in the Canadian Constitution. Rather, the environment...

17 Nov Engaging new regulatory approaches to generate revenue for environmental management: ELC report

Posted at 21:13h in Accounting for nature, Nature and Biodiversity, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Engaging new regulatory approaches to generate revenue for environmental management: ELC report Resources are needed to address a broad suite of environmental challenges in Alberta: point source pollution, non-point source pollution and...

19 Oct CESD finds insufficient Monitoring, Listing and Enforcement is undermining protection of Species at Risk and Biodiversity in Canada

Posted at 18:58h in Fisheries, Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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CESD finds insufficient Monitoring, Listing and Enforcement is undermining protection of Species at Risk and Biodiversity in Canada Since 1995, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada has had a mandate...

27 Jan 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

Posted at 18:12h in Habitat, Municipal Government Act, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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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...

03 Nov On the wrong path: the proposed Trails Act needs changes to ensure trail management reflects science

Posted at 21:00h in Habitat, Parks & Recreation, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 2 Comments

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the wrong path: the proposed Trails Act needs changes to ensure trail management reflects science Edmonton, Alberta - November 3, 2021 - The Trails Act (Bill 79) was tabled...

28 Oct Changes made to Alberta’s forest laws in May 2021 but has anything really changed?

Posted at 15:04h in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Habitat, Land Use by Brenda Heelan Powell 2 Comments

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Changes made to Alberta’s forest laws in May 2021 but has anything really changed? The need to shift to managing forests not forestry Earlier this year, changes were made to the Forests...

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...

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...

19 May Reimagining Rivers Webinar Series

Posted at 23:57h in Core Environmental Principles, Environmental Rights, Nature and Biodiversity, Water, Webinars by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Reimagining Rivers Webinar Series: An online journey Join the Centre for Constitutional Studies and the Environmental Law Centre as we take an online journey to reimagine rivers. Webinar 1: Reimagining Rivers Magpie River...

27 Apr An Update to CEPA – A long time coming or too little, too late?

Posted at 15:16h in Core Environmental Principles, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Rights, Nature and Biodiversity by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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An Update to CEPA – A long time coming or too little, too late? On April 13, 2021, the federal government brought forward the Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act...