Federal laws protecting Canadian waters under threat It has been about a year since the federal government introduced Bills C-38 and C-45 which have weakened Canada’s environmental laws. Among...
Rio +20 = 1867? Canada’s interesting math On the verge of the end of Rio +20 and the passage of the federal budget bill (C-38), I felt it worthwhile...
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...
Will Statoil’s “creative sentence” 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...
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...
Fighting gravel applications in Alberta – Guest blog January 20, 2011 was a good day for watersheds; it was the day that we stopped one of the gravel applications...
Fighting gravel applications in Alberta – Guest blog January 20, 2011 was a good day for watersheds; it was the day that we stopped one of the gravel applications...
Alberta’s coal fired power debacle In all the talk about GHGs and contaminants from oilsands, it is often overlooked how significant the known impacts of Alberta’s heavy reliance on...
Alberta’s coal fired power debacle By Laura Bowman, Staff Counsel In all the talk about GHGs and contaminants from oilsands, it is often overlooked how significant the known impacts...
RSC Report: Science, regulation and the precautionary principle Earlier this week the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) released a lengthy report on the state of oilsands science and regulation in...
RSC Report: Science, regulation and the precautionary principle By Laura Bowman and Jason Unger Earlier this week the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) released a lengthy report on the...
International Year of Biodiversity Closes on a depressing note The 193 UN parties to the 1993 Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) are meeting in Japan this month, including Canada. This...