The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically
complicated companies' efforts to fully comply with the myriad
of environmental regulations that affect their operations.
Maintaining full environmental compliance can be challenging at the
best of times; in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, that goal may
require extraordinary efforts -- or may be impossible to
achieve.
Environmental leaders understand the need to act in the face of
the practical uncertainty. In this bulletin, we review the
responses of Canadian environmental regulators to COVID-19 and
provide some guidelines to assist companies in managing legal
uncertainty, to prioritize their efforts, to enhance compliance and
to reduce the legal risk of potential non-compliance related to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
