Transocean seeks to cap liability for Gulf spill
One of the biggest ways that our legal system contributes to enormous, high-risk accidents, is to allow those responsible to limit their financial liability. This allows them to raise money from investors, and obtain insurance, for high-risk activities that the government wishes to support.…
View the post titled Transocean seeks to cap liability for Gulf spillNot every spill is an offence
It’s encouraging to see the courts rejecting prosecutions for minor, low fault spills that are quickly and professionally managed.
View the post titled Not every spill is an offenceEnvironmental penalties gaining steam
Ontario’s environmental penalties regime for spills is gathering steam. The final count for 2009 was 13 penalties totalling $112,143.20, most under the Environmental Protection Act. The highest penalty was $23,750. Thirteen more penalties have already been issued in the first four months of …
View the post titled Environmental penalties gaining steamSpill, baby, spill
Two major oil disasters in a single month – a Chinese oil tanker aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico – where is Sarah Palin now? Or, more seriously, where is environmental law when we need it? The Australian spill is, in a legal sense, simpler.
View the post titled Spill, baby, spillWastewater billions
Environment Canada is of the view that the ...proposed regulations are affordable if all jurisdictions make wastewater funding a priority….
View the post titled Wastewater billionsRegulation 347 amended
Ontario Regulation 347 (General - Waste Management) has been amended through Ontario Regulation 337/09 to change definitions and requirements related to field operations.
View the post titled Regulation 347 amendedNot every spill is an offence
The Ontario Court of Justice has acquitted a company that spilled caustic soda on a road, on the grounds that the spill did not cause an adverse effect.
View the post titled Not every spill is an offenceCN pays big fines re Wabamun, Cheakamus spills
CN has been sentenced to pay $1.8 million in fines for two spills from 2005 derailments in Alberta and B.C. Most of these moneys will be directed to local environmental programs.
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