19 May Red Tape or Duct Tape?
Red Tape or Duct Tape: When is the red tape we are cutting actually duct tape holding it all together? In our work, the ELC focuses on a number of core environmental principles...
Red Tape or Duct Tape: When is the red tape we are cutting actually duct tape holding it all together? In our work, the ELC focuses on a number of core environmental principles...
Action on Climate Needed Now! The Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development releases his Fall 2021 Report Since 1995, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada has a mandate related to...
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...
The right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is recognized as a universal human right On October 5th, the UN’s Human Rights Council passed Resolution 48/13 (the Resolution) recognizing...
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...
Reimagining Rivers: Animals as Legal Beings – Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders Friday, October 29 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MDT Professor Maneesha Deckha (UVic) and Assistant Professor Jessica Eisen (UAlberta)...
“Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change August 9, 2021 Press Release The impacts of climate change are becoming more apparent in our daily lives: increased forest fire activity,...
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...
Take a Stand, Make Decisions Better: Alberta Court of Appeal reboots standing test of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board Normtek Radiation Services Ltd v Alberta Environmental Appeal Board, 2020 ABCA 456 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/jc3cb> Take a stand, make decisions...
Alberta’s Agricultural Lands: A Policy Toolbox for Moving from Conversion to Conservation Now Available:Alberta’s Agricultural Lands A Policy Toolbox for Moving from Conversion to Conservation by Brenda Heelan Powell Published January 2021 Download In anticipation of our...
Optimizing Alberta Parks?? Without Public Consultation, the Government has announced removal of 175 sites from the parks system As a lawyer, I am familiar with the somewhat fluid nature of words. But hearing the...
Let’s Show our Love for Wetlands While February is best known for celebrating love on Valentines’ Day, it is also the month we express our love for wetlands with World Wetlands...