Electricity conservation getting serious
Ontario’s landmark Green Energy Act (GEA) was passed a year ago, on May 14, 2009, to bring us major changes in energy conservation and renewable energy. Big subsidies have ramped up renewable energy generation, through the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) and microFIT programs. Now it’s time for energy conservation. All Ontario electric utilities must now implement...
Continue reading the post titled Electricity conservation getting seriousRisk Assessments- old numbers or new?
This Technical Update will likely invalidate most risk assessments already submitted to the MOE.
Continue reading the post titled Risk Assessments- old numbers or new?Why You Should Pay Attention to Class Action Notices
This paper answers the question – why should you pay attention to a class action notice. To answer this question, it is necessary to provide some background regarding the content and purpose of class action notices. Introduction This paper answers the question – why should you pay attention to a class action notice. To answer...
Continue reading the post titled Why You Should Pay Attention to Class Action NoticesWhat are uninsured, unidentified and underinsured motorist claims?
I. Third-Party Liability Coverage: Who pays for damages if I am injured, but it is not my fault? In Ontario, if you are injured in a motor vehicle accident you may commence a lawsuit against an at-fault driver to compensate for your injuries and losses. Usually, the at-fault driver’s own insurance company will cover the defence...
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Air pollution is wide-spread across Ontario, coming from many sources and moving with large air masses from one region to the next. It’s resulting in health effects, including cancer and respiratory illnesses like asthma. Last year, more than 5000 premature deaths were attributed to poor air quality, in Ontario alone, and there were almost...
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Can a responsible person still eat fish?
Continue reading the post titled Can we still eat fish?Can Oakville make power plant get municipal air permit?
Can municipalities insist that local industries obtain municipal air permits, in addition to those issued by the province?
Continue reading the post titled Can Oakville make power plant get municipal air permit?Feds to regulate municipal wastewater
Environment Canada has released 74 pages of proposed regulations on municipal sewage treatment. Once in force, these regulations will set standards for effluent and reporting from about 4000 municipal wastewater facilities, and will considerably tighten discharge standards for many of these plants. Last year, the Canadian Council of Minister of the Environment endorsed a Canada-wide Strategy for the...
Continue reading the post titled Feds to regulate municipal wastewaterCy-prés distributions – Honouring “as close as possible”
In a previous blog post we had discussed the origin of cy-près distributions and their benefits. In sum, cy-près distributions help to enforce one of the public policy rationales behind class actions: behaviour modification by holding wrongdoers accountable for their actions. Where it is no longer economically feasible to distribute an award to individual class...
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Until September 19, 2007, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund (GMF) is accepting applications from municipalities for low-interest loans to fund brownfield remediation projects. The projects must result in conservation of heritage buildings or construction of new buildings to at least a LEED™ Silver rating. (LEED has really caught on as benchmark of...
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