DLA Piper (Canada) LLP

Energy and Natural Resources; Infrastructure, Construction and Transport; Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations; Antitrust and Competition; Environment Health and Safety

Wally Braul is one of Western Canada's most highly regarded energy, Indigenous law and environmental lawyers.

Wally has extensive experience with tribunal and ‎judicial proceedings with respect to shale gas fracking, water, ‎pipelines, marine terminals, contaminated sites, tailing ponds and public utility matters. ‎He has provided strategic advice to senior executives of energy companies on how ‎to respond to recent judicial decisions on Indigenous title and legislation respecting ‎LNG and water. Wally has also negotiated with Indigenous groups on consultation ‎protocols and impact and benefit agreements in a wide array of natural resource ‎projects and provided opinions on civil, regulatory and quasi-criminal liability on ‎environmental and Indigenous law issues.

Wally brings a nuanced understanding of competing perspectives to form pragmatic business solutions and litigation strategies. He maintains strong working relationships with federal and provincial regulators to keep abreast of unfolding policies and requirements. He has previously acted for regulators in litigation matters (including a precedent-setting case that imposed liability on a foreign subsidiary for environmental problems caused by its Canadian subsidiary), as well as law reform (such as the drafting of B.C.'s contaminated sites legislation, regulations and policy advice to the federal government on imports of hazardous waste).

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