Ecojustice and Greenpeace Take Action
On September 12, 2018 Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic and the University of Ottawa partnering with Greenpeace Canada filed a lawsuit to stop Bill 4, the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018. The claim alleges that the government “unlawfully failed” to engage in public consultations over …
View the post titled Ecojustice and Greenpeace Take ActionEcojustice sues to save endangered species
Ecojustice, Ontario Nature and the Wildlands League have launched a lawsuit against the Ontario government protesting a lengthy set of exemptions given to businesses under Regulation 242/08 of the Endangered Species Act. The industries that received exemptions include agriculture, forestry, …
View the post titled Ecojustice sues to save endangered speciesWaste exemption becomes less useful: what is "wholly used"?
The Environmental Review Tribunal has reduced the usefulness of an important exception to the “waste” rules in Regulation 347.
View the post titled Waste exemption becomes less useful: what is "wholly used"?Drive Clean relaxes a bit
Ontario is proposing changes to the Drive Clean auto emission testing program. The changes would exempt all vehicles–cars, trucks and busses—less than 7 years old from being tested as part of their registration renewal. Any vehicle plated as historic would be exempted too (Vehicles pla…
View the post titled Drive Clean relaxes a bitWhy is FOI so hard?
In 2009, of the 10,240 general information requests received by provincial government organizations, the Ministry of the Environment received 4944, the most of any provincial institution.
View the post titled Why is FOI so hard?Consultation underway for first Green Energy Act regulations
The Ministry of Energy has already begun consultations on its first regulation under the Green Energy Act, to exempt small renewable energy projects from local and municipal land-use controls.
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