Does the Endangered Species Act have teeth?
Is that all the Endangered Species Act will do? Create an expensive sort of legal shell game while irreplaceable habitat is bulldozed?
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Should environmental auditing become its own profession? Dianne gave a highly anticipated Keynote address to the annual meeting of the Auditing Association of Canada in beautiful Kananaskis, Alberta. She reviewed the defining characteristics of a self regulated profession, and the advantages…
View the post titled Environmental auditing – its own profession?Federal environmental assessment shrinks
Eliminating federal EA makes it less likely that cumulative impacts will be evaluated, such as climate change.
View the post titled Federal environmental assessment shrinksTransit class action, EA and the St. Clair Streetcar
Curactive Organic Skin Care is starting a class action over the St. Clair streetcar. It wants to sue the Ontario government, Toronto and the TTC for $105 million in damages. Curactive says hundreds of small businesses lost money, due to delays in transit construction, and to changes in the d…
View the post titled Transit class action, EA and the St. Clair StreetcarDoes law have to be so dysfunctional?
It's a debate worth having - have we allowed the role of litigation and courts to expand too much, in environmental and other fields? And if so, what should we do about it?
View the post titled Does law have to be so dysfunctional?Environmental Assessment: Worth the cost?
The main finding of this study is that the lengthy time frames and higher costs to comply with the Municipal Class EA process are not providing additional environmental or other benefits.
View the post titled Environmental Assessment: Worth the cost?Approvals Reform gets closer
For most businesses that need new or amended approvals, these changes probably cannot come quickly enough. But the transition period could be painful.
View the post titled Approvals Reform gets closerBetter federal environmental assessments coming?
This morning, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in MiningWatch Canada v. Minister of Fisheries and Oceans et al. As you will see, MiningWatch’s appeal has been allowed. The unanimous court ruled that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act requires government to condu…
View the post titled Better federal environmental assessments coming?Quick Overview of Canadian Environmental Law
Please checkout our new page, with its quick summary of Canadian environmental in an easy-to-read, question and answer format. It starts: Legislation 1 Main environmental regulations What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment? Under Canada’s constitution, environm…
View the post titled Quick Overview of Canadian Environmental LawExplosive neighbours and disgruntled municipalities
The village of Beaumont adopted a bylaw to prohibit the construction of any compressed or liquid gas storage facility within 1 kilometer of its borders.
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