Pollution Probe Honours Dokis First Nation Power Project
Chief Denise Restoule of the Dokis First Nation attended the 2014 Pollution Probe Gala to accept Pollution Probe’s 2014 Sustainability Award in connection with the Okikendawt Project—a 10 MW hydroelectric facility being developed by the Dokis First Nation with Hydromega Services Inc. New water power projects are not always green, and are meeting stiff environmental, aboriginal...
Continue reading the post titled Pollution Probe Honours Dokis First Nation Power ProjectReducing confusion about Blue Box decision
the flaws in the rejected model are precisely why municipalities have received smaller payments since 2009. Now that this model has been discredited, municipalities will receive larger payments, just as they did in 2014
Continue reading the post titled Reducing confusion about Blue Box decisionYes, Ontario lawyers can talk to their experts
Lawyers must work with experts to focus and clearly express their opinion testimony. The lawyer cannot tell the expert what to say, but must ensure that the export report addresses the relevant questions in a clear and comprehensible way that will assist the judge to decide the lawsuit.
Continue reading the post titled Yes, Ontario lawyers can talk to their expertsOntario’s Climate Change Consultations
We recently blogged about Ontario’s Climate Change Discussion Paper 2015. The paper reveals the province’s current thinking on climate change policy options and seeks public input on the following specific questions: 1. How can Ontario better support scientific research to advance future technologies that can help fight climate change? 2. In what ways could sectors...
Continue reading the post titled Ontario’s Climate Change ConsultationsRecent Decision Affirms Precautionary Principle
In May of this year, the Federal Court released a decision that affirms the importance of the precautionary principle in the management of fisheries. The decision (Morton v Canada (Fisheries and Oceans), 2015 FC 575) comes as a result of a challenge, launched by lawyers at Ecojustice on behalf of biologist Alexandra Morton, to an...
Continue reading the post titled Recent Decision Affirms Precautionary PrinciplePivotal lawsuit over the Peel River watershed
Can the Yukon government simply reject what the First Nations have to say about the exploitation of their traditional territory?
Continue reading the post titled Pivotal lawsuit over the Peel River watershedPrecautionary principle stronger part of Canadian law
This may be the strongest, most nuanced judicial statement on the precautionary principle in Canada since the Supreme Court of Canada first recognized it in Spraytech
Continue reading the post titled Precautionary principle stronger part of Canadian lawAppeal Court overturns OMB Overreach
At the end of August, the Divisional Court granted the Town of Richmond Hill’s appeal of a decision of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). The OMB approved Richmond Hill’s Official Plan policies that required the conveyance of parkland as a condition of development, but then directed that the conveyance be subjected to an overall cap...
Continue reading the post titled Appeal Court overturns OMB OverreachThree-Year Phase Out Proposed For Neonicotinoid Pesticide
In an interesting twist, Health Canada just announced its intention to manage the agricultural uses of the pesticide imidacloprid to protect aquatic insects; this pesticide, like other neonicotinoid pesticides, has been under fire for some time for its effects on pollinators, for which we have written extensively about. Health Canada has recently completed a re-evaluation...
Continue reading the post titled Three-Year Phase Out Proposed For Neonicotinoid PesticideSnapping Turtle Hunt Banned in Ontario
The Ontario government has announced amendments to the Hunting Regulation (O Reg 665/98, made under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997) that will, among other changes, prohibit the hunting of snapping turtles in the province. In its original posting to the Environmental Registry (the “Registry”) the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (“MNRF”) proposed...
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