In order to enable the implementation of its Calgary Community GHG Reduction Plan, the City of Calgary has commissioned this legislative review of several proposed programs which are designed to...
In Water We Trust: Engaging Albertans in Restoration and Maintenance of Environmental Flows Should Alberta adopt policies that allow for 3rd party participation in instream flow protection? Are water trust organizations...
Standing in Environmental Matters This is a comprehensive report on “standing”: the legal status necessary to receive a hearing from a court or an administrative board or tribunal that holds hearings....
What Lies Beneath? Buyer Beware It’s every homeowner’s nightmare: You buy a home, move in, then find out there’s an abandoned gas well beneath, leaking and contaminating your property. Think it can’t happen...
NEB begins cross-country consultation on pipeline safety The National Energy Board (the “NEB”) recently began its public engagement initiative relating to pipeline safety [the information about the cross-country engagement initiative in...
Standing in Environmental Matters This is a comprehensive report on “standing”: the legal status necessary to receive a hearing from a court or an administrative board or tribunal that holds hearings....
Calmar: What lies beneath? Yesterday the Edmonton Journal ran a piece called “Five years, five homes demolished and gas keeps bubbling from the deep.” It’s a story about any homeowner’s nightmare:...
Update on the MGA Review: Government releases first "What We Heard" document As indicated in previous posts, the Alberta government is currently reviewing the Municipal Government Act (MGA). Given the key role that...
Empowering Municipalities for Environmental Management Recommendations to Strengthen Alberta’s Municipal Government Act In Alberta, the powers and activities of municipalities are governed by the Municipal Government Act (the MGA). The Government of Alberta is currently...
Empowering Municipalities for Environmental Management It is the ELC’s view that municipalities have the potential to play a pivotal role in environmental management and protection in Alberta. Municipalities have the authority...
Calgary likes Green Regs & Ham! In late May, over 100 environmental nonprofit leaders, regulatory lawyers and industry representatives gathered together to enjoy Green Regs & Ham in Calgary. This second-annual...
Yet another denial of standing found unlawful BC court favors environmental groups, but “public interest standing” remains out of reach. In Gagne v. Sharpe a denial of standing by the BC Environmental Appeals Board was found to involve unfair...