ELC publishes Climate Change Legal Roadmap: A Snapshot of Alberta's Climate Change Law & Policy In late 2015, the Alberta Government released its Climate Leadership Plan (the “Climate Leadership Plan”) which is...
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...
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....
Environmental Assessment & the Canadian Constitution: Substitution and Equivalency The ultimate goal of this publication is to make a determination as to constitutionality of the substitution and equivalency approach endorsed by...
Join us in celebrating 30 years of excellence! Our 2012 Annual Report is now available. Wondering what we got up to in 2012? Read all about it in our 2012 Annual Report. Audited...
ELC's Comments on Proposed Amendments to the Regulations Designating Physical Activities promulgated under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA, 2012) Click here to read the ELC's Comments on Proposed Amendments to...
Our Liquid Assets: Moving Alberta’s laws toward treating water as a public resource Water is essential to all aspects of our society and is often undervalued. As a “resource” or “good,” water...
A Model Environmental and Sustainability Assessment Law (Annotated Version) The ELC presents A Model Environmental and Sustainability Assessment Law (Annotated Version). The Model Law incorporates environmentally sound principles, enabling sustainable decision-making to become...
A Model Environmental and Sustainability Assessment Law (without annotations) The ELC presents A Model Environmental and Sustainability Assessment Law (without annotations). The Model Law incorporates environmentally sound principles, enabling sustainable decision-making to become part...