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In this case, the SCC established a framework on how to equitably compensate Indigenous communities for the unauthorized operation of hydroelectricity projects on Reserve land without consent.

As calls flood in to the Agent Orange hotline by people worried about their health, I came across a 1970-Press release by MPP Dr. Morton Shulman. Dr. Shulman, one of Canada's early environmental campaigners, lambasted the provincial government for continuing to spray 2,4,5T up and down Ontario highways.

Dianne gave a well received presentation on the Abitibi case at the Annual Review of Insolvency Law in Montréal during the big snowstorm.

By now, so many of the anti-wind appeals have been dismissed, on basically the same grounds, and often on the same evidence, that the Tribunal decides each new appeal by citing its previous cases.

Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment continues to adopt "best management practices" documents as guidance for environmental consultants and industries.

The Ministry of the Environment has amended Ontario Regulation 153/04, under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA), related to brownfields.

The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming.

Is there real enforcement of conservation authority regulations? Often, no, but that may be starting to change.

A very powerful environmental artwork was on display in City Hall’s parking garage during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.

The Clean Water Act source protection process is chugging ahead on schedule. All 38 Threat Assessment Reports are expected by the end of December 2010; 25 have already been submitted for MOE review and approval.

This episode features a discussion involving Osler's Shuli Rodal, partner, Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment, and Isabelle Crew, associate, Litigation; Regulatory, Environmental, Indigenous and Land, ...

On March 19, 2019, Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled in the House of Commons the Liberal Government's fourth budget, Investing in the Middle Class ("Budget 2019").

On January 27, 2015, the federal government accepted the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB)’s recommendation — submitted in October 2014 and supported by 127 terms and conditions — to approve Agnico Eagle’s Meliadine planned gold mine in the territory’s Kivalliq region.

The current moratorium on issuing permits to take water for the purpose of water bottling is expected to expire on October 1, 2020.

Procedural skirmishing is underway in the Hanna lawsuit against Ontario wind turbines. Hanna is seeking a declaration striking down certain sections of O.Reg. 359/09 that could authorize renewable energy permits for wind farm.

Some of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s court bulletins are headscratchers.

Illustrating the adage that an indemnity is only as good as the person giving it, a recent case from the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal demonstrates the serious exposures a vendor may encounter when contaminated property is sold subject to a contractual indemnity without adequate security.