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Climate change and extreme weather events, such as wildfires and warmer temperatures, are significantly affecting risks in the Canadian insurance industry.

On January 18, 2018 the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Sorflaten v. Nova Scotia (Environment) (2018) NSSC 7 refused to admit the expert opinion of Dr. Douglas J. Hallett, a toxicologist, relating to certain environmental aspects of a Ministerial approved pilot project for burning recycled tires as fuel at a cement plant owned by Lafarge Canada.

On January 29, 2015, the Ontario Court of Appeal held that counsel and their experts are permitted to confer in a way that does not interfere with an expert’s impartiality and meets the standards of conduct prescribed by both the expert’s and counsel’s respective professional regulating bodies.

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On March 6, 2024, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) issued a Notice of Hearing announcing its intention to hold an oral hearing to review the cost of capital...

On November 1, 2018, at the United Nations Ministerial Dialogue on the Environment and the Ministerial Dialogue on Climate Change, Minister of Environment and Climate Change ...

On March 18, 2009, the federal government introduced regulatory amendments under the “Canadian Environmental Assessment Act” (“CEAA”) to spur the development of infrastructure while maintaining appropriate levels of environmental protection.

In July 2013, the Environmental Review Tribunal revoked the Renewable Energy Approval issued to Gilead Power to develop a nine-turbine, 22.5-megawatt wind power project at Ostrander Point in Prince Edward County.

The Green Energy Act, 2009, which was passed in May, 2009, was proclaimed in force this week and various related legislative amendments and regulations have been issued.

The York Region Non-Wires Alternative (NWA) Demonstration Project is aimed at developing a better understanding of how to competitively secure and operate...

On August 16, 2017, Dalex Canada, pled guilty to one count of contravening the Tetrachloroethylene (Use in Dry Cleaning and Reporting Requirements) Regulations...

Chemtura Canada, a chemical manufacturing company in Elmira, Ontario, was fined $150,00 for discharging 4200 kg of BLE-25 and 112 kg of acetone into the air.

On July 27, 2016, the Ontario Court of Justice levied $70,000 in fines against a Hamilton company for contravention of the federal PCB regulations...

On December 20, 2016, Tidan Inc. and seven of its associated companies ("Tidan Group") pled guilty to 52 charges under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act ("CEPA")...

An Ontario man was sentenced to three months jail in New Brunswick for illegally trafficking threatened iguanas. The individual, who is from Thornhill, Ontario, was sentenced in Fredericton Provincial Court...

In this decision, three First Nations and two environmental non-governmental organizations asked the Federal Court to, among other things, compel the minister of the environment (Minister) to recommend to the Governor in Council that it issue an emergency order under section 80 of the "Species at Risk Act", S.C. 2002, c. 29 (SARA) for the protection of the boreal caribou herds in northern Alberta, which are part of a population of caribou listed as threatened under SARA.

The ERCB announced on March 12 that it was revising Directive 6 and Directive 11 to increase the amount of security required to be posted by operators of oil and gas wells, facilities and pipelines.