Clotheslines, pesticides, and water bottles
This year, Earth week in Ontario was marked by three small steps in the long battle to keep from destroying our own world. Each of the three had as much cultural as legal significance. Last summer, this blog got coast-to-coast publicity for our call for action on clothesline bans. Clotheslin…
View the post titled Clotheslines, pesticides, and water bottlesFirst case on GHG Emissions
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development v. Canada is the first Canadian legal decision to turn on how greenhouse gas emissions are disclosed. In this case, four nongovernmental organizations challenged the environmental assessment of a huge oil sands mine. The Kearl mine required a fed…
View the post titled First case on GHG EmissionsThanks to our visitors
Obviously, the word is spreading. More than 1000 unique visitors read our blog in the last four weeks. Welcome! Don’t forget, we’re always open to suggestions for future blog topics. If you have a great court decision or even an intriguing question, do pass them along. And enjoy …
View the post titled Thanks to our visitorsWhat do Polluting Tenants owe their Landlords?
What do polluting tenants owe their landlords? Typically, industrial leases have been interpreted to require polluting tenants to remediate their contamination at the end of the lease.
View the post titled What do Polluting Tenants owe their Landlords?Environmental reporting: OSC
Boilerplate" discussions of environmental issues are no longer acceptable because they do “not provide meaningful information to investors”.
View the post titled Environmental reporting: OSCFirst Nation Wins Case re Pollution on Reserve
Aboriginal issues are increasingly important in all areas of Canadian law and environmental law is no exception. One area of conflict concerns environmentally hazardous activities carried out on reserves, without provincial environmental regulation. Equivalent federal rules are often weak an…
View the post titled First Nation Wins Case re Pollution on ReserveAn important appeal
On April 9 and 10, the Ontario Divisional Court will hear an important appeal: do applicants for environmental approvals have to do more than meet MOE standards? In Lafarge Canada v. Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Lafarge and the Ministry of the Environment will be lined up on one si…
View the post titled An important appealNew Rules on QPs
The MOE has pushed ahead with its regulation to restrict Environmental Site Assessments to professional engineers and geoscientists, as of October, 2009. O. Reg. 66/08 amends the definition of Qualified Person in O. Reg. 153/04. This will exclude agrologists and technologists, who now perfor…
View the post titled New Rules on QPsA determined man with a wrench
One of the classic homeowner nightmares keeps happening: a determined man with a wrench pumps oil into a house long since converted to gas. A recent Ontario case asked: does any liability fall on the person who did the conversion?
View the post titled A determined man with a wrenchAre our migratory birds protected?
One of the oldest international environmental treaties is the 1916 Convention between the United States (US) and Great Britain for the Protection of Migratory Birds in the US and Canada. It was adopted after the destruction of the once ubiquitous passenger pigeon, to require each country to …
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