The collateral costs of abandoned wells By Chinomso Iliya-Ndule & Jason Unger When a headline starts with “Taxpayers could be on hook…” people take notice (–funnily enough the headline changed during the...
Oil and gas well site reclamation, polluter pays and pie crust promises As was reported last week, a large chunk of change is being sought by the Petroleum Services Association of...
Pollution Pocketbook #1: Who pays for pollution? Pollution pocketbook is a short blog series regarding how our laws and policies incorporate the polluter pays principle. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="270"] Imperial Refinery,...
Paying for pollution: who should be on the hook for environmental harm? Our lives invariably cause a level of pollution: we drive, we use chemicals to clean our clothes and our...
Creditor protection versus polluter pays: Laws leave environment cash strapped The Environmental Law Centre promotes the polluter pays principle as central to effective environmental law. Inherent in the polluter pays principle...
Time to apply 'polluter pays' principle Edmonton Journal November 7, 2010 Re: "Good call on carbon-capture liability," Opinion, Nov. 3. The Journal editorial fails to consider a core principle regarding how we should...