21 Mar Seven year review of CEAA: An update
Seven year review of CEAA: An update A comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) was due to be conducted in 2010 (by section 32 of Bill...
Seven year review of CEAA: An update A comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) was due to be conducted in 2010 (by section 32 of Bill...
Can Alberta learn from Fukushima? Click here to read Can Alberta learn from Fukushima? on the ELC blog. ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTRE: The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) has been seeking strong and...
Canada Water Week and standing To kick off Canada Water Week (the 14th to the 22nd of March) with a legal spin I have borrowed a quote from a case from our southern neighbours in...
Turning an oil sands mine into an ATV park Published in Alberta Oil Magazine, March 2011 By Adam Driedzic, Staff Counsel, Environmental Law Centre What shall we do with a mined-out mud bog? Oil sands...
Property rights vs. planning shouldn’t be a battle to the death What we do with our land is constrained in many ways, whether on our own volition as landowners, through common law...
New research on public health implications of coal power New research published in Environmental Health Perspectives this month compares public health gains from electricity consumption versus impacts of high electricity consumption. It suggests coal...
“Water worlds” and nutrient management policies: recent isotope hydrology studies may have significant policy implications Jeffrey McDonell, a hydrologist from Oregon State University and this year’s Birdsall Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, was recently...
Bill C-469, Federal Environmental Bill of Rights report of the Environment committee submitted to the House of Commons The Report Bill C-469, An Act to establish a Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights was submitted to...
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 from going...
ELC Comments on proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Study List Regulations related to ski area developments in national parks Click here to read ELC Comments on proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Study List...
ELC Comments on Bulletin 2010-39 "Province-Wide Framework for Well Spacing for Conventional and Unconventional Oil and Gas" Click here to read ELC Comments on Bulletin 2010-39 "Province-Wide Framework for Well Spacing for...
We need an independent environmental protection and monitoring agency with teeth Given all of the recent reports on the Oilsands released late last year, including the Royal Society report (RSC), the Liberal report, the NDP...