Environmental And Regulatory Compliance Issues For The Natural Resources Sectors During COVID-19

Across Canada, companies and regulators are taking unprecedented steps to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to protect the health and safety of the workforce while adapting to the evolving regulatory responses to COVID-19 are placing pressure on the ability of many companies to maintain business continuity. One of the pressures is a company's ability to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements with respect to environmental and health and safety matters.

We outline some of the challenges and related steps that can be taken by companies to protect against liability in relation to regulatory non-compliance during COVID-19, with a focus on the natural resources sectors.