Nature and Biodiversity

12 Apr Announcing the ELC’s Upcoming Webinar Series

Posted at 20:10h in About ELC, Climate and Energy, Environmental Rights, Nature and Biodiversity, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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The Environmental Law Centre is pleased to announce a new webinar series. The webinars are based on current areas of focus at the ELC and seek to address how laws and...

08 Feb Back to what we once HADD (plus more)

Posted at 22:59h in Environmental Assessment, Fisheries, Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity, Species at Risk, Water management by Brenda Heelan Powell 1 Comment

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Back to what we once HADD: Fisheries Act Amendments are Introduced Since the 1970s, section 35 of the Fisheries Act operated to protect fish and fish habitat throughout Canada by prohibiting the...

31 Jan Going, Going… Gone: Stopping the Loss of Agricultural Lands in Alberta

Posted at 16:21h in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Sustainable Communities by Brenda Heelan Powell 3 Comments

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Going, Going… Gone Moving from Conversion to Conservation: Stopping the Loss of Agricultural Lands in Alberta Loss of Agricultural Lands In late 2017, the Alberta Land Institute issued its Economic Evaluation of Farmland Conversion...

15 Nov The Qat’muk Grizzly Bear Spirit, the Jumbo Valley Ski Resort & the Protection of Sacred Lands in New Zealand

Posted at 19:36h in Environmental Assessment, Environmental Rights, Indigenous affairs, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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The Qat’muk Grizzly Bear Spirit, the Jumbo Valley Ski Resort & the Protection of Sacred Lands in New Zealand In early November, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its much anticipated decision in...

22 Mar Whirling disease and the law: a call for precautionary environmental management on World Water Day

Posted at 17:18h in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Cumulative Effects, Environmental Assessment, Nature and Biodiversity, Water, Water management, Watershed management by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Whirling disease and the law: a call for precautionary environmental management on World Water Day Invasive species are a huge challenge for our ever shrinking world. Whirling disease being found in the...

22 Dec Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act

Posted at 15:28h in Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Market Based Instruments, Municipal Government Act, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Environmental Law Centre 0 Comments

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Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act The ELC is publishing a series of four volumes concerning Market-Based Instruments & the Alberta Land Stewardship Act. This work is to encourage the...

04 Feb Biodiversity Management Framework

Posted at 19:25h in Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity by Jason Unger 1 Comment

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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. Its activities have included commenting...

25 Feb The Federal Court finds unlawful delay by the government under the Species at Risk Act

Posted at 11:44h in Nature and Biodiversity, Species at Risk by Brenda Heelan Powell 3 Comments

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The Federal Court finds unlawful delay by the government under the Species at Risk Act In our recent post on the Northern Gateway decision report, we mentioned an ongoing court case...

13 Dec Grousing about the value of species or “how much for that caribou in the window?”

Posted at 16:06h in Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Species at Risk by Jason Unger 3 Comments

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Grousing about the value of species or “how much for that caribou in the window?” The first emergency protection order under the federal Species at Risk Act was issued last week...

29 Jan The story of Caribou policy in action, or is that inaction

Posted at 13:54h in Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Species at Risk by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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The story of Caribou policy in action, or is that inaction A recent story of a road being built in the Little Smokey Caribou range reflects the provincial government’s narrative of...

10 Oct Optimistic policy is not what Woodland Caribou need

Posted at 10:16h in Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Species at Risk by Jason Unger 1 Comment

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Optimistic policy is not what Woodland Caribou need The federal Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal population, in Canada was posted recently and the outlook remains bleak...

02 Sep The one-two punch for Alberta’s Woodland Caribou

Posted at 13:51h in Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Species at Risk by Jason Unger 1 Comment

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The one-two punch for Alberta's Woodland Caribou Within the past 7 days the federal and provincial governments published documents that may result in Alberta’s Woodland Caribou going down for the count. ...