Battleground Environment Deconstructing Environmental Jurisdiction under the Canadian Constitution The environment and all that it entails does not specifically appear in the Canadian Constitution. Rather, the environment appears distributed across both the...
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...
Managing recreation on public land: How does Alberta compare? Have you ever wondered if recreational use of public land is managed differently, and perhaps better, in places other than Alberta? Do...
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....
Paying for pollution: who should be on the hook for environmental harm Our lives invariably cause a level of pollution: we drive, we use chemicals to clean our clothes and our homes,...
Is Canada ready for the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference? At the 2015 Canadian Association of Environmental Law Societies Conference held at the University of Calgary last week, I presented a brief overview of global, Canadian and provincial developments...
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...
The Regional ‘Plan to Plan’ In September 2014 the Government of Alberta released the first South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (SSRP) made under the Alberta Land Stewardship Act(ALSA). On January 17, 2015 I was honored...
did you know that you may need a Water Act approval to start moving earth around your land?...