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Climate Change Blog Series: Problems with Pesticides and Pipelines (Fall 2015 Report of Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development)

Climate Change Blog Series: Problems with Pesticides and Pipelines (Fall 2015 Report of Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable...

Climate Change Law Blog Series: Climate Change Litigation in Canada

Climate Change Law Blog Series: Climate Change Litigation in Canada   This is the first post in the Environmental Law...

Do Courts Take Judicial Notice of Climate Change?

Do Courts Take Judicial Notice of Climate Change?     At the recent 2015 Canadian Bar Association Symposium on “Environment...

Fracking Fall Out

Fracking Fall Out   Controversial spin-off industries expose gaps in regulation Click Here for some media coverage about a dispute...

Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act regulations: do the feds want “out” of s.91(12) of the Constitution Act?

Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act regulations: do the feds want “out” of s.91(12) of the Constitution Act?   Section 91 (12)...

Changes to Fisheries Act take effect November 25

Changes to Fisheries Act take effect November 25   As part of its Omnibus Budget Bill last year, the government...

South Saskatchewan Regional Plan tests the Land Use Framework

South Saskatchewan Regional Plan tests the Land Use Framework   The Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (Draft SSRP) is a...

A confidential mess: The problem with confidentiality when cleaning up pollution

A confidential mess: The problem with confidentiality when cleaning up pollution   Case comment re Imperial Oil Limited v Calgary...

Federal laws protecting Canadian waters under threat

Federal laws protecting Canadian waters under threat   It has been about a year since the federal government introduced Bills...

Rio +20 = 1867? Canada’s interesting math

Rio +20 = 1867? Canada’s interesting math   On the verge of the end of Rio +20 and the passage...

Castle logging tests public lands law

Castle logging tests public lands law   Regulated access to public land in Alberta has undergone a major overhaul. As...

Will Statoil’s “creative sentence” prevent illegal water use?

Will Statoil’s “creative sentencing” prevent illegal water use?   Norwegian giant Statoil has pled guilty to breaching the terms of...

Fighting gravel applications in Alberta – Guest blog

Fighting gravel applications in Alberta – Guest blog   January 20, 2011 was a good day for watersheds; it was...

Alberta’s coal fired power debacle

Alberta’s coal fired power debacle   By Laura Bowman, Staff Counsel In all the talk about GHGs and contaminants from...

RSC Report: Science, regulation and the precautionary principle

RSC Report: Science, regulation and the precautionary principle   By Laura Bowman and Jason Unger Earlier this week the Royal...

International Year of Biodiversity Closes on a depressing note

International Year of Biodiversity Closes on a depressing note   The 193 UN parties to the 1993 Convention on Biodiversity...

Thinking outside the (single-use) bag: How Fort Mac’s ban came to be

Thinking outside the (single-use) bag: How Fort Mac’s ban came to be   Sean Graham is the driving force behind...

Alberta’s declining grizzly bears, how low can we aim for species protection?
Current plans, even if implemented appear to aim to keep the species in a perpetually threatened and in a declining...
Canadian government decides that your sewage doesn’t stink for up to 30 years from now

Canadian government decides that your sewage doesn’t stink for up to 30 years from now   Last week, the Canadian...

Industry and government are slowly defining the duty to consult and accommodate First Nations

Industry and government are slowly defining the duty to consult and accommodate First Nations   April 19, 2010 Published in...

Why “specified gas emitters” don’t report “specified gas emissions”

Why “specified gas emitters” don’t report “specified gas emissions”   How much greenhouse gas does your favorite industrial facility produce?...

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