Facts, Reasons and Environmental Evils: Recent Canadian Environmental Law Decisions In recent months, there have been several interesting environmental law decisions issued by the Federal Court of Canada. In both Greenpeace Canada...
Yet another denial of standing found unlawful BC court favors environmental groups, but “public interest standing” remains out of reach. In Gagne v. Sharpe a denial of public interest standing by the BC...
Sound environmental monitoring for Alberta – will AEMERA deliver? With the proclamation of the Protecting Alberta’s Environment Act in mid-April, the Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency – known as...
Question: Who wants to know about oil spills? Answer: No one who doesn’t ask. Here’s a little story from the CBC about their efforts for access to information on a not so...
A confidential mess: The problem with confidentiality when cleaning up pollution Case comment re Imperial Oil Limited v Calgary (City), 2013 ABQB 393 (CanLII). When a polluter contaminates the environment should we know...
Reclaiming Tomorrow Today: Regulating well site retirement to benefit the environment Tens of thousands of oil and gas wells sit unproductively on the landscape, either suspended or abandoned. These sites reflect an...
Creditor protection versus polluter pays: Laws leave environment cash strapped The Environmental Law Centre promotes the polluter pays principle as central to effective environmental law. Inherent in the polluter pays principle...
EPA finds fracking causes water contamination A draft report from the US Environmental Protection Agency on fracking for natural gas in Wyoming found that disposal pits caused shallow groundwater contamination. The...
Core Environmental Principles for Environmental Laws, Policies and Legal Processes The Environmental Law Centre recognizes that the environment is a public good that must be protected. The Environmental Law Centre’s Strategic...
Twas an Alberta night before Christmas (adapted from Twas the Night Before Christmas, C. Moore or H. Livingston) Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring,...
Court directs precaution in pesticide review case A recent decision from the Federal Court of Canada is notable for its interpretation of the how the precautionary principle must guide government decisions...
Cumulative environmental defects The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development released a report yesterday covering the federal government’s climate change plans and cumulative environmental effects assessment of oil sands projects....