Energy East Pipeline v Belugas, Part 2
The threatened white beluga whales of the St. Lawrence or high-noise pipeline work? Earlier this month we blogged about Justice Claudine Roy’s decision granting a temporary injunction to environmental groups, blocking Energy East Pipeline Ltd. and TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. from conducting exploratory work in the St. Lawrence River near Cacouna, QC until October 15, when a...
Continue reading the post titled Energy East Pipeline v Belugas, Part 2No fault contaminated site liability in Nova Scotia
IMP Group International Inc. appealed unsuccessfully from a Nova Scotia Minister of the Environment Order to study and remediate offsite groundwater contamination that it did not cause.
Continue reading the post titled No fault contaminated site liability in Nova ScotiaPCB Cleanup Dispute goes to the CEC
Bennett Environmental has filed a complaint with the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, alleging that Canada, and more specifically the province of Québec, is failing to effectively enforce Québec’s Environment Quality Act (EQA) and the Regulation Respecting the Burial of Contaminated Soils by issuing a permit for the use of chemical oxidation to treat PCB-contaminated soils, without proper...
Continue reading the post titled PCB Cleanup Dispute goes to the CECAnti-Fluoride in Drinking Water: Litigation Update
Will citizen group litigation and the threat of personal liability stop fluoridation of drinking water in Ontario? In our earlier blog post, we described a threat by an advocacy group called Concerned Residents of Peel to End Water Fluoridation (Concerned Residents) against Peel municipal councillors. The group threatened the councillors with personal liability if they did not stop the Region from...
Continue reading the post titled Anti-Fluoride in Drinking Water: Litigation UpdateMTO to modernize intercity bus services
The Ministry of Transportation (“MTO”) is taking a closer look at what motivates the decisions Ontarians make about how they travel from city to city. More specifically, the MTO is interested in how people travel between communities in Ontario by intercity bus. As stated in a proposal posted to the Environmental Registry, the MTO is seeking to...
Continue reading the post titled MTO to modernize intercity bus servicesWild horses can't keep wind energy away: new twist on anti-wind litigation
In Clarington Wind Concerns v Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change), 205 CanLII 51503 (ON ERT), the Environmental Review Tribunal (“ERT”) has dismissed the latest twists in anti-wind litigation. This time, wind opponents raised concerns about spooked horses, tornados and radio communications. In January 2015, the Director of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (“MOECC”) issued...
Continue reading the post titled Wild horses can't keep wind energy away: new twist on anti-wind litigationQuick approvals for green energy projects
Ontario has decided that it is more important to get green projects built than it is to have better environmental assessments of them.
Continue reading the post titled Quick approvals for green energy projectsFirst 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 federal Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) because the project needs a Fisheries Act...
Continue reading the post titled First case on GHG EmissionsWhen is wood waste renewable?
Is biomass really renewable? The Green Energy Act treats wood waste as an infinitely renewable source of energy, like sunlight and wind. But is it? Biomass sceptics have pointed to high costs (in money and in energy) to collect, transport and handle wood waste, especially as fuel for electrical generation. Now, Trent Professor Shawn Watmough has...
Continue reading the post titled When is wood waste renewable?What is Biomass?
Now that interest in green energy is hot, everyone is trying to define "biomass".
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