Back to what we once HADD: Fisheries Act Amendments are Introduced Since the 1970s, section 35 of the Fisheries...
The Cost of Protecting the Environment: Judicial and regulatory proceedings The Environmental Law Centre is publishing a series of...
Federal Government Discussion Paper on the Reviews Federal Response to the Environmental Assessment, the National Energy Board, the Navigation Protection...
Welcome Jason Unger as ELC’s new Executive Director Perhaps you’ve read a few of Jason’s blog posts and wondered...
Climate Change Legal Roadmap: Carbon Pricing Recommendations for Alberta This is the tenth post in the Environmental Law Centre’s...
Climate Change Blog Series: Problems with Pesticides and Pipelines (Fall 2015 Report of Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable...
Climate Change Law Blog Series: Climate Change Litigation in Canada This is the first post in the Environmental Law...
Do Courts Take Judicial Notice of Climate Change? At the recent 2015 Canadian Bar Association Symposium on “Environment...
Fracking Fall Out Controversial spin-off industries expose gaps in regulation Click Here for some media coverage about a dispute...
Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act regulations: do the feds want “out” of s.91(12) of the Constitution Act? Section 91 (12)...
Changes to Fisheries Act take effect November 25 As part of its Omnibus Budget Bill last year, the government...
South Saskatchewan Regional Plan tests the Land Use Framework The Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (Draft SSRP) is a...
A confidential mess: The problem with confidentiality when cleaning up pollution Case comment re Imperial Oil Limited v Calgary...
Federal laws protecting Canadian waters under threat It has been about a year since the federal government introduced Bills...
Rio +20 = 1867? Canada’s interesting math On the verge of the end of Rio +20 and the passage...
Castle logging tests public lands law Regulated access to public land in Alberta has undergone a major overhaul. As...
Will Statoil’s “creative sentencing” prevent illegal water use? Norwegian giant Statoil has pled guilty to breaching the terms of...
Fighting gravel applications in Alberta – Guest blog January 20, 2011 was a good day for watersheds; it was...
Alberta’s coal fired power debacle By Laura Bowman, Staff Counsel In all the talk about GHGs and contaminants from...
RSC Report: Science, regulation and the precautionary principle By Laura Bowman and Jason Unger Earlier this week the Royal...
International Year of Biodiversity Closes on a depressing note The 193 UN parties to the 1993 Convention on Biodiversity...
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