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Fracking Fall Out Controversial spin-off industries expose gaps in regulation Click Here for some media coverage about a dispute...
OWC interviews ELC Counsel Adam Driedzic on Watershed Stewardship The Oldman Watershed Council (OWC) interviewed Adam Driedzic, Staff Counsel...
Brenda Heelan Powell, ELC Counsel, participates in AER’s Best-in-Class Regulator Initiative Brenda Heelan Powell, Staff Counsel at the Environmental...
ELC Counsel Jason Unger on Water Quality in Alberta Panel Discussion In celebration of Canadian Water Day last March...
Municipal Government Act Review Update: Bill 20 is introduced and it’s disappointing Earlier this month, the Alberta government introduced...
And justice for whom? Questions of “standing” split the audience: Standing in Environmental Matters In late 2014 the Environmental...
Springbank dry dam and environmental assessments In today’s Calgary Herald: “Prentice confident Springbank dry dam most cost-effective option to...
Paying for pollution: who should be on the hook for environmental harm? Our lives invariably cause a level of...
Buyer Beware: What happened before on that property you’re thinking about buying? Today’s Edmonton Journal features an article about...
What Lies Beneath? Buyer Beware. ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTRE: The Environmental Law Centre (ELC) has...
NEB begins cross-country consultation on pipeline safety The National Energy Board (the “NEB”) recently began its public engagement initiative...
What Lies Beneath? Buyer Beware. It’s every homeowner’s nightmare: You buy a home, move in, then find out there’s...
Of backhoes and water woes: reviewing the breadth of landscaping regulation under the Water Act We are not all...
Environmental Site Assessment Repository Search Service We are very pleased to announce a new Environmental Law Centre service! The...
The Regional ‘Plan to Plan’: South Saskatchewan Regional Plan South Saskatchewan Regional Plan Avoids the Hard Choices In September...
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency seeks comments on its Cumulative Effects Guideline Following significant changes to the federal environmental assessment...
ELC Blog – 2014 in review The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog....
Omnibus budgets bills that transformed Canada’s environmental laws visited by the Federal Court The Federal Court issued its decision...
Calmar: What lies beneath? Yesterday the Edmonton Journal ran a piece called “Five years, five homes demolished and gas...
Is Canada prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Earlier this month, the Report of the Commissioner of...
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