Update on federal Environmental Bill of Rights On Thursday, May 6th, a private members’ bill, C-469, An Act to establish...
The scales of just-fish: are letters of advice crappie ways to minnow-mize harm? The case of Cassiar Watch The...
Governments must assess the environmental impacts of a whole project MiningWatch Canada v. Canada (Fisheries and Oceans) In January...
In April 2025, the Government of Alberta (GOA) issued its Mature Asset Strategy: What We Heard and Recommendations report. The...
In 2024, the government of Alberta established the Oil Sands Mine Water Steering Committee (the “Committee”) with the mandate to...
Part 1: The Liability Management Context by Lexa Ward and Rebecca Kauffman Since the first oil sands mine application was...
Inside this blog Written by Simon Robertson and Kyra Leuschen. The North Saskatchewan River Valley Area Redevelopment Plan (Bylaw No....
The Environmental Law Centre invites you to join our webinar discussion around contaminated sites and the law on February 27,...
(Photo: Horia Varlan from Bucharest, Romania, CC BY 2.0) ___________________________________________________________________________ Attempts by the federal government to tackle plastic pollution...
The Canadian Constitution, the Environment, and the Misguided Notions of Provincial Sovereignty The proposed Alberta Sovereignty Act has been...
An update on the E.L. Smith Solar Farm: Case Comment on Edmonton River Valley Conservation Coalition Society v Council of...
FALL 2020 REPORTS OF THE CESD A FOCUS ON THE TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS IN CANADA The Commissioner of...
The polluter pays principle in Alberta:Meeting economic challenges with regulatory certainty To say these are “challenging times” is a...
Climate Change Litigation in Canada: Environnement Jeunesse v. Canada This past November, ENvironnement JEUnesse (ENJEU), an environmental nonprofit in...
Pollution Pocketbook #2: Polluter Pays Principle – Determining when polluters should pay — “there’s no free lunch” Pollution pocketbook...
Pollution Pocketbook #1: Who pays for pollution? Pollution pocketbook is a short blog series regarding how our laws and...
And justice for whom? Questions of “standing” split the audience: Standing in Environmental Matters In late 2014 the Environmental...
Creditor protection versus polluter pays: Laws leave environment cash strapped The Environmental Law Centre promotes the polluter pays principle...
We should take gravity more seriously No, not the apple on the head gravity, rather the gravity of potential...
Syncrude ducks the issue The prosecution has delivered its closing arguments in the ‘ducks in tailings pond’ case of...
Alberta – BC environmental harmonization; legal, practical and political implications of the Species at Risk Act; Court of Appeal clarifies...
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