Tag: planning

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  • Webinars
What lies beneath? Accessing environmental information on real estate
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  • Environmental Rights and Principles
  • Webinars
Implementation of Watershed Plans: Approaches, issues and recommendations
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  • Public Participation
  • Pollution and Human Health
Landfill intervener has genuine interest

Landfill intervener has genuine interest   “Pity the fool who mess with Mr. T“. No, this is not the A-Team...

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  • Cumulative Effects, Land Use
The landowner’s dilemma: Are reasonable expectations obsolete?

The landowner’s dilemma: Are reasonable expectations obsolete? University of Calgary Faculty of Law Sep 28 2010 – 12:15pm – 2:00pm...

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  • Public Participation
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...

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  • Land Use
  • Pollution and Human Health
National pollutant data finally released, sort of

National pollutant data finally released, sort of   In 2009 MiningWatch Canada won a federal court case launched in 2007...

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  • Water
The rivers be dammed, or is that damned?

The rivers be dammed, or is that damned?   By Jason Unger Staff Counsel, Environmental Law Centre If we are...

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  • Public Participation, Water
Accountable for what?

Accountable for what?   When we talk about accountability we are, by necessity, drawn into the world of law. The...

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  • Public Participation
Feds gut environmental assessment (again). Public in the dark (again).

Feds gut environmental assessment (again). Public in the dark (again).   By Adam Driedzic Staff Counsel, Environmental Law Centre You...

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  • Public Participation
Senate Committee protects the environment

MEDIA RELEASE   SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE PROTECTS THE ENVIRONMENT   Edmonton, AB, 9 July 2010 – In the past few...

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  • General
  • Climate Change and Energy
Be sure to check the ELC website

Be sure to check the ELC website   Staff Counsel members have been hard at work providing comments on proposed...

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  • Land Use, Species at Risk
  • Environmental Rights and Principles
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...
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  • Cumulative Effects
We should take gravity more seriously

We should take gravity more seriously   No, not the apple on the head gravity, rather the gravity of potential...

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  • Land Use, Parks & Recreation, Species at Risk
ELC Comments on Proposed Alberta Parks Legislation

ELC Comments on Proposed Alberta Parks Legislation   Click here to read the ELC’s comments on proposed new parks legislation...

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  • Cumulative Effects, Public Participation, Water
  • Pollution and Human Health
Environmental Rights: Bill C-469 moves forward

Environmental Rights: Bill C-469 moves forward   By Adam Driedzic, Staff Counsel Federal Bill C-469, the Private Members’ proposal for...

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  • Cumulative Effects, Water
  • Pollution and Human Health
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...

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  • Cumulative Effects, Public Participation
  • Pollution and Human Health
Bill C-311 the Climate Change Accountability Act: action or aspiration?
Bill C-311, riding on a wave of political apathy, represents a failure to take risks on real measures. Targets are...
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  • Environmental Assessment
Cindy Chiasson on CBC’s The Current this morning speaking about Bill C-9 (Budget Bill).

Cindy Chiasson on CBC’s The Current this morning speaking about Bill C-9 (Budget Bill).   Listen to the audio recording...

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  • General
  • Climate Change and Energy
Wondering what we’ve been up to?

Wondering what we’ve been up to?   Check out the ELC’s 2009 Annual Report. (PDF)       ABOUT THE...

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  • Water
Aboriginal peoples and the future of water management in Alberta

Aboriginal peoples and the future of water management in Alberta   The Canadian Institute of Resources Law has an interesting...

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  • Cumulative Effects, Land Use, Public Participation
Update on federal Environmental Bill of Rights

Update on federal Environmental Bill of Rights On Thursday, May 6th, a private members’ bill, C-469, An Act to establish...

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