Environmental assessment and duplication: “Don’t we have a photocopier?” There is significant rhetoric around how the federal and provincial governments have duplicative and therefore inefficient environmental assessment processes. The federal government...
Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development issues its report on the CEAA Seven Year Review Last week, the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development issued its report entitled Statutory Review...
Is basic science taking a back seat in policy development? There is a mantra that I hear all too often in reference to environmental management. “We can’t manage what we don’t...
Castle logging tests public lands law Regulated access to public land in Alberta has undergone a major overhaul. As of September 2011, the Public Lands Administration Regulation is in force under...
The times, are they a-changin'? Standing and the ERCB For many years, one of the most troublesome points in environmental law in Alberta has been the very narrow scope of standing,...
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...
Pipelines and participation: Radical rhetoric, planning and public interest There has been significant ink devoted to the recent pipeline proposals in the United States and Canada linking oilsands production to world...
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,...
Will Statoil's "creative sentencing" prevent illegal water use? Norwegian giant Statoil has pled guilty to breaching the terms of a Water Act license, joining Suncor and Syncrude as the third oil...
Seven Year Review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA): An update A comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) was due to be...
ELC launches public interest standing project “Standing”: Basically the right to a hearing. Greatly in need of law reform. • Are you a lawyer for parties that represent public viewpoints? • Are you...
What does the future hold for the Alberta Land Stewardship Act? Two weeks have passed since Alison Redford became Alberta’s newest premier. One of her first statements as premier was that...