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21 Oct Accounting for Nature: The Kananaskis Conservation Pass

Posted at 16:00h in Conservation, Habitat, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation, Sustainable Communities by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Accounting for Nature: The Kananaskis Conservation Pass In 2022, the Environmental Law Centre (“ELC”) will be releasing a report about the funding of conservation. For our purposes, conservation funding...

28 Sep Here Comes the Sun: Solar Access in Alberta

Posted at 16:49h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Solar by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Here Comes the Sun: Solar Access in Alberta If you have been keeping up with the ELC blog, you may remember the first blog post we wrote about solar...

27 Jul Bank Swallows and Motorsports

Posted at 22:38h in Habitat, Nature and Biodiversity, Parks & Recreation, Species at Risk, Sustainable Communities by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Bank Swallows and Motorsports: In the race to save species at risk, we need to pick up the pace This story, like many that deal with species at...

05 May The Inquiry Into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns: What’s Next?

Posted at 16:05h in Climate and Energy, Core Environmental Principles, Energy, Environmental Rights by Allison Boutillier 0 Comments

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The Inquiry Into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns: What’s Next? In July 2019, shortly after the provincial election, the Kenney government set up the Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns [the...

20 Apr ELC Submission on the Coal Policy

Posted at 16:51h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Land Use, Nature and Biodiversity, Pollution & Emissions, Public Participation by Brenda Heelan Powell 0 Comments

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ELC’s Written Submission on the Coal Policy The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) is Alberta’s oldest public interest environmental law organization and believes that law is a powerful tool to...

07 Apr I Read the Carbon Tax Decision So You Don’t Have To: A Detailed Summary of the Main Issues

Posted at 17:45h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Energy by Allison Boutillier 0 Comments

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I Read the Carbon Tax Decision So You Don’t Have To: A Detailed Summary of the Main Issues On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its...

04 Feb Take a Stand, Make Decisions Better

Posted at 18:25h in Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Jason Unger 0 Comments

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Take a Stand, Make Decisions Better: Alberta Court of Appeal reboots standing test of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board Normtek Radiation Services Ltd v Alberta Environmental Appeal Board, 2020 ABCA 456 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/jc3cb> ...

24 Nov Climate Litigation in Canada – An Update

Posted at 17:21h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change by Rebecca Kauffman 1 Comment

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Climate Litigation in Canada – An Update Earlier this month, we released a blog post on climate litigation in Canada and around the world which you can check out...

09 Nov Climate Litigation in Canada and beyond – Where are we in 2020?

Posted at 17:46h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Energy by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Climate Litigation in Canada and beyond – Where are we in 2020? This is the fifth post in our recent series on climate change litigation in Canada and around...

01 Oct The Supreme Court of Canada prevents a SLAPP-ing

Posted at 15:57h in Core Environmental Principles, Public Participation by Rebecca Kauffman 2 Comments

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The Supreme Court of Canada prevents a SLAPP-ing Decision considered: 1704604 Ontario Ltd. v Pointes Protection Association, 2020 SCC 22. On September 10, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada...

26 Feb Let’s Show our Love for Wetlands

Posted at 18:16h in Agriculture, Forestry & Mining, Sustainable Communities by Brenda Heelan Powell 1 Comment

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Let’s Show our Love for Wetlands While February is best known for celebrating love on Valentines’ Day, it is also the month we express our love for wetlands with...

29 Jan Climate Change Litigation – 1 step forward, 2 steps back

Posted at 19:19h in Climate and Energy, Climate Change, Core Environmental Principles, Environmental Rights, Public Participation, Sustainable Communities by Rebecca Kauffman 0 Comments

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Climate Change Litigation – 1 step forward, 2 steps back Climate litigation is still very new and Canada did not see much of it until 2018 when one of...