Key legal issues in the Green Energy Act
Bill 150, the Green Energy Act, will directly affect lawyers all over Ontario, including those in the environmental, energy, municipal, and natural resource fields. As a result, the Ontario Bar Association is preparing detailed comments that will address at least the following issues:
View the post titled Key legal issues in the Green Energy ActRegulation of noise
Noise is one of the classic irritants that drives neighbours crazy.
View the post titled Regulation of noiseGreen energy generation, but what about transmission?
The "right to connect" is not as simple as it sounds.
View the post titled Green energy generation, but what about transmission?Renewable energy approvals
One great feature of the Green Energy Act will be freeing renewable energy projects from the current straightjacket of Ministry of the Environment rules on “waste”.
View the post titled Renewable energy approvalsFederal government updates enforcement tools
The federal Minister of the Environment today introduced extensive amendments to nine federal environmental laws to increase fines and expand enforcement tools. Some of the changes are significant improvements. For example, all federal environmental fines will now be paid into the Environme…
View the post titled Federal government updates enforcement toolsQuébec activist wins pollution battle against City
Environmentalist Guy Drouin has won a long and lonely battle against sewage pollution by the City of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts.
View the post titled Québec activist wins pollution battle against CitySansone and 310 Waste win new trial
In one of the biggest environmental cases of 2007/8, huge fines and jail sentences were imposed on the former owners and operators of a waste transfer site on Keele Street, in Vaughan. The site caught fire in 2004, creating a huge plume of choking smoke and enormous political heat. Toda…
View the post titled Sansone and 310 Waste win new trialMore trouble with environmental experts
In 1996, there was a devastating flood in part of the City of Ottawa. A number of residents sued the City, alleging that its storm water drainage system was inadequate. The City retained Robert Bishop of MMM as its expert witness. Bishop reported that the drainage system in the area met all…
View the post titled More trouble with environmental expertsQuick 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.
View the post titled Quick approvals for green energy projectsNavigable waters protection ebbing away?
The federal government has proposed a little noticed amendment to the Navigable Waters Protection Act that could seriously erode public access to Canadian waterways. Ever since Canada was first settled, anyone in a canoe has had a right to paddle rivers, lakes and streams with enough water t…
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