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The purpose of the Regulation respecting the regulatory scheme applying to activities on the basis of their environmental impact is to identify activities that are considered to be of moderate...

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The small Municipality of West Elgin and three of its water distribution system operators were fined for drinking water violations, including providing false information and failing to report adverse test results.

The federal fuel charge came in force on April 1, 2019. This charge on fossil fuels now applies to fuels that are consumed in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick, the four provinces ...

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced on February 2, 2026, that it fined Estee Lauder Cosmetics Ltd. $750,000 for two violations of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA).

Greg Johnson, Wesley Novotny and Brendan Sigalet write for the Resource Sector Taxation journal on federal tax policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by incentivizing clean energy technologies.

The Registry has been crucial to supporting public participation in environmental decision making in Ontario for nearly two decades.

In a decision released on May 12, 2020, Justice D.E. Harris of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ("the Court") allowed an appeal from a sentence in R v Collingwood Prime Realty Holding Corp et al

On July 6, 2016, the DFO accepted the Ministerial Advisory Panel recommendation in the fate of the "last-in, first-out" policy (LIFO) for the Northern shrimp fishery: after 20 years, LIFO's out.

On December 2, 2011, Enbridge Inc. entered into an equity participation agreement with the Gitxsan First Nation, pursuant to which Enbridge will assist the Gitxsan First Nation in purchasing a stake in the proposed $5.5 billion Northern Gateway pipeline which has the potential to result in $7 million in profits for the Gitxsan over the project’s lifetime.

On November 25, 2013, significant amendments to the fish protection provisions in the federal Fisheries Act came into force.

As promised in Minister Murray's mandate letter, Ontario's provincial government has reintroduced the Great Lakes Protection Act.

In response to widespread complaints by manufacturers, dealers and consumers, Ontario has frozen the so-called "eco-fees" that are used to finance the diversion of off-the-road (OTR) tires from disposal.

Much like their hatchet job on the Fisheries Act, the federal Conservatives’ Bill C-45 has taken a similar axe to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, among other environmental changes in their latest Omnibus Bill.

President Obama spoke on U.S. climate change at Georgetown University on Tuesday. In this speech he commented, for the first time in months, on the Keystone XL pipeline which will carry crude oil from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries in the Gulf Coast.

Kathleen Wynne’s government has re-introduced the proposed Great Lakes Protection Act, 2013 as Bill 6, which is aimed at encouraging members of the Great Lakes community to collaborate to improve water quality and protect the lakes and their shores and wetlands.