How to charge for stormwater management
Can and should municipalities charge for stormwater management on an area basis? How would be the winners and losers?
View the post titled How to charge for stormwater managementAn introduction to smog
Air pollution causes 5,900 deaths each year in eight Canadian cities alone.
View the post titled An introduction to smogWho makes environmental policy?
The Ivey Foundation’s five-year review of its program to conserve Canada’s forests is an excellent example of how foundations and nongovernmental organizations can successfully influence government environmental policy. It’s well written and a fascinating look at the forces…
View the post titled Who makes environmental policy?More problems with reliance letters
Clients typically overestimate the protection that a reliance letter gives them.
View the post titled More problems with reliance lettersMy neighbour cut down my tree: can I sue?
My neighbour came onto my property and cut down my tree. Can I sue?
View the post titled My neighbour cut down my tree: can I sue?Excess material or waste?
The Ministry of the Environment has tried and failed to introduce a rational excess materials policy. In its absence, the province has established two main benchmarks for excavation fill, but they do not match.
View the post titled Excess material or waste?Municipal water quality, raccoons and class actions
Ste-Adele faced a class-action after two dead raccoons and one bird were found in a 40-year-old, 125,000 L, chlorinated municipal reservoir.
View the post titled Municipal water quality, raccoons and class actionsEveryone wants to be a climate change lawyer
Before you can sell something you have to understand it, create it, and have it recognized, and that’s where the environmental lawyers fit in.
View the post titled Everyone wants to be a climate change lawyerChristie pits, pesticides, and the public interest
I find it astounding that striking garbage workers are going to such lengths to block municipal attempts to comply with the orders of the medical officer of health to control pests at temporary garbage dumps.
View the post titled Christie pits, pesticides, and the public interestProposed changes to Reg. 347- Waste
Half of the amendments are intended to ensure that the Ministry wins long-standing arguments about the interpretation of the regulation.
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