The ELC’s Alberta EnviroLaw Connect newsletter is issued once or twice a year to provide updates on ongoing projects and activities. It is available for download here.
Grassland management; recreation and water; the Greater Sage Grouse; water transfers; contaminated land regulation
...What is standing and why should you care?; Alberta’s energy regulators split on common mandate; the ERCB and consistency in...
“Rac”king our brain over oilsands country; interpreting the Land Use Framework; Lower Athabasca Regional Plan and biodiversity doublespeak
...Alberta’s new land use planning process begins; provincial water allocation review; Environmental Bill of Rights enters Parliament; nuclear in Alberta
...Bill 50 delivers shocks to the electricity planning process; Court of Appeal opens ERCB’s standing door a crack; feds face...
Private claims vs. public interest and environmental protections; the federal government’s responsibility to to report on pollution from the mining...
Tougher fines for federal environmental offences; BC aquaculture laws found unconstitutional; species at risk in Suffield National Wildlife Area
...Kyoto Implementation Act is a matter for Parliament; energy micro-generation in Alberta; climate change and water management in Alberta; no...
Equity and the Water Act; flurry of Aboriginal litigation hits Alberta; initiating investigations under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act;...
Our vision for land use planning in Alberta; subsurface mineral sales in BC; land use planning and fish; Strathcona County’s...
Oilsands appeal provides little clarity; water diversions, licences, property transactions and water sales; Federal Court finds CEAA amendments alter government’s...
Environmental impacts of new nuclear power projects; Court of Appeal confirms regulation is of limited use; nuisance claims may be...
EUB turns down energy project; oilsands consultation completed, now what?; EUB updates Eastern Slopes policy and proposes pilot project; Alberta’s...
Siting concerns regarding nuclear energy; greenhouse gas regulation 101; EAB approvals must support higher goals; lawsuit launched against Canada for...
Oilsands development planning; oilsands and water; oilsands and reclamation; governing the oilsands; a backgrounder on oilsands consultations
...Alberta’s initial steps toward watershed management planning calls for public input in oilsands development; a regulatory framework for nuclear power...
Clean Air Act weak on greenhouse gas emissions; EUB warns against form letters in intervener submissions; plants may force Alberta...
Access to EAB process; emissions trading regulation now in force; oilfield injection of fresh water policy and guidelines released; new...
NRCB revises to respond to AOPA concerns; trespass and directional drilling; federal “smart regulation”
...Judicial scrutiny of environmental assessment in Alberta; environmental disasters and Lake Wabamun
...We provide objective information and respected advice on changing environmental legislation and regulations; we are one of the only charities in Alberta that provide this to Albertans.
