Reclaiming Tomorrow Today (Slides) Alberta has a significant number of suspended and abandoned well sites which represent ongoing environmental and fiscal liabilities. To minimize these liabilities abandonment and reclamation of well...
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 to access information on a not so little pipeline...
An overview of the Northern Gateway decision report The proposed Northern Gateway Project (the “Project”) consists of two pipelines and a marine terminal. The pipelines are anticipated to follow a 1...
Grousing about the value of species or “how much for that caribou in the window?” The first emergency protection order under the federal Species at Risk Act was issued last week and it applies a list...
Changes to Fisheries Act take effect November 25 As part of its Omnibus Budget Bill last year, the government passed significant changes to the federal Fisheries Act which came into force November 25th (see Order...
Is the federal government protecting Canada’s national heritage? Fall 2013 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Earlier this month, the Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable...
Regulations Designating Physical Activities (RDPA: An update on amendments to federal environmental assessment laws Following public consultation on proposed amendments earlier this year, the federal government recently passed amendments to the Regulations Designating Physical...
Second regional plan poses challenge for the Land Use Framework The Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (Draft SSRP) is a work in progress that must do more if it is to advance the...
Pembina ruling shines spotlight on need for reform This week, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench issued a ruling on public engagement in environmental decision-making in Pembina Institute v. Alberta (Environment and...
A confidential mess: The problem with confidentiality when cleaning up pollution When a polluter contaminates the environment should we know exactly what is being done to address that harm? I would...
Alberta’s new wetland policy: baby steps in an adult world After a very long wait a new wetland policy for the province was released yesterday. The policy is a step forward in managing...
The quandary of cumulative effects — Fitting a science peg in a law hole In March 2012, ELC Executive Director Cindy Chiasson presented a paper called “The Quandary of Cumulative Effects —...