Drive Clean tweaked
Ontario’s vehicle emissions control program, Drive Clean, is getting a tuneup. Amendments to Ontario Regulation 361/98[i] (Motor Vehicles) under the Environmental Protection Act will modernize the Drive Clean program.[ii] By December 12, 2012, the Acceleration Simulation Mode (dynamometer) …
View the post titled Drive Clean tweakedPrivate prosecution gets a boost
There is often tension between the public’s right to commence a private prosecution, and the attorney general’s right to take over that prosecution, often in order to drop it. The Ontario Court of Appeal has given a boost to private prosecutors, ruling that they are entitled to have at least…
View the post titled Private prosecution gets a boostSyncrude found guilty in ducks case
Syncrude has been found guilty of two offences relating to the large duck kill of 2008. That April, 1606 migrating ducks died after landing on the toxic tailings pond of the huge Aurora tar sands mine. A member of the Sierra Club laid the original charges, another vindication for private pro…
View the post titled Syncrude found guilty in ducks caseSeizure on consent?
When can ministry investigators seize documents outside the scope of a search warrant? During the execution of a warrant, Ministry of the Environment investigators seized approximately 100 documents that clearly lay outside the scope of the warrant. They showed one set of documents to the co…
View the post titled Seizure on consent?Reg. 153/04 amended again
The Ontario regulation on brownfields and records of site condition, O. Reg. 153/04, has been amended again. Ontario regulation E laws was filed June 17, 2010. The changes are minor, primarily the correction of typos and erroneous cross-references. The Ontario Ministry of the Environment h…
View the post titled Reg. 153/04 amended againEarthquakes and nuclear plants
Soon after our office stopped shaking in today’s second earthquake, I started to wonder again about Ontario’s nuclear plants. OPG says we shouldn’t worry: “There have been no earthquakes greater than a Magnitude 4 within 50 km of the Pickering nuclear power station o…
View the post titled Earthquakes and nuclear plantsWorld's Leading Women in Business Law
Another honour, thank you so much to those who recommend us: Dear Ms. Saxe, I take great pleasure in congratulating you on your selection into the inaugural edition of the Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law– the first-ever guide dedicated to the world’s leading female p…
View the post titled World's Leading Women in Business LawVideo on approvals reform
Thanks to Nimonik for posting a video interview of Dianne on the Ontario approvals reform legislation.
View the post titled Video on approvals reformWas BP evil or unlucky?
Did the Gulf oil spill occur because BP was negligent or unlucky? They may have been merely unlucky; the sorts of tradeoffs that they made are likely common in the oil industry. Still, it was inevitable, given the scale of the spill, that BP would be vilified and probably prosecuted. It is …
View the post titled Was BP evil or unlucky?Treaty on Mercury?
A global agreement to restrict the use of mercury may finally be on the way. The UN’s first intergovernmental Mercury Conference took place in Stockholm this month; the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has released a summary of the negotiations.
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