Business Law

If the Ministry of the Environment adopts the very stringent new standards it has proposed, it must offset them with major improvements to risk assessment or risk sterilizing numerous contaminated sites, with grave environmental and economic consequences.

Contaminated property can exhaust the entire assets of an estate; in extreme cases, the personal assets of the executor can also be at risk.

If Thomas Friedman is right, in his compelling bestseller, Hot, Crowded and Flat, Canada has just thrown away a major opportunity to build a successful future. This week’s federal budget will create an $85 billion deficit, without creating the clean, sustainable energy supply that our …

Proposed plaintiffs in the Sunrise Propane class action have won a court order, forcing provincial regulators to immediately turn over photographs, videos, and parts of witness statements concerning the explosion site.

Developers and banks are expressing strong concern to the Ministry of the Environment about the impact of proposed standards for contaminated sites.

President Obama began today a major, and long-overdue shift in US energy and environmental policy, and a reassertion of American leadership on international issues such as climate change.

Canada has no clear legal standards for indoor air quality in homes. Yet most people spend at least 90% of their time indoors, and indoor air is often more contaminated than outdoor air.

Rating agencies may have taken a beating in the credit crisis, but some are hoping to make a good dollar out of the climate crisis.

An Ontario court has ruled that offsite drift of a pesticide is not necessarily an offence. Neighbours abutting a farm complained that they and their animals were made ill when the herbicide, Prowl, drifted from the adjacent farm. Ministry of the Environment confirmed that some Prowl had lan…

Should there be a consistent world wide method to calculate and advertise the carbon footprint of products? And, if so, what should it say?