The Green Energy Act REA regulations
The actual regulations establishing renewable energy approvals apply to Anaerobic digestion facilities; Solar facilities; Thermal treatment facilities, and Wind facilities.
View the post titled The Green Energy Act REA regulationsGreen Energy Act regulations in force
Renewable energy projects are now exempt from a wide range of municipal and provincial approvals, and can be sited in a more-or-less one window approach through the Ministry of the Environment.
View the post titled Green Energy Act regulations in forceClimate change victims can sue coal-fired plants
Those who burn coal create emissions known to have adverse effects (climate change) on others. These are the very sorts of harm that tort law is designed to control.
View the post titled Climate change victims can sue coal-fired plantsGreenhouse Gas law second reading
Bill 185, the Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) 2009, received second reading debate September 14 and 15th. This fairly uncontroversial statute will give the province power to adopt regulations to implement a greenhouse gas emission trading system. The…
View the post titled Greenhouse Gas law second readingPreston Manning calls for carbon and water pricing
Preston Manning, pillar of Canadian conservatism, called today for all Canadian governments to build a sustainable Canada by relying heavily on pricing. Water should cost more, especially where it is scarce, as in southern Alberta. And the urgency of climate change should be met, now, with c…
View the post titled Preston Manning calls for carbon and water pricingThe nuclear debate
Increasing public acceptance of the urgency of climate change is refocusing the nuclear debate.
View the post titled The nuclear debateAn introduction to smog
Air pollution causes 5,900 deaths each year in eight Canadian cities alone.
View the post titled An introduction to smogUS climate rules, California and Ontario's cap and trade plan
Canada has done so little for so long that our climate policy has laid us wide open to serious protectionist provisions in the 1500 page ACES, HR 2454.
View the post titled US climate rules, California and Ontario's cap and trade planUS- Great leap forward on climate change
In the last few days, the US government has taken two of the critical steps towards serious action on climate change that the Bush administration fought off for eight years.
View the post titled US- Great leap forward on climate changeFederal carbon offset system, 2.0
This week, the Conservatives announced a summary of their own carbon offset system and promised more detailed rules in the fall. They look a lot like the ones we almost had in 2005.
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