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There is no indication in Bulletin 2015-10 as to the reason for, or anticipated length of, the delay in the Joint Operating Procedures taking effect.

Residents of Muskoka launched a $900,000,000 class action against the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry ("MNRF") on September 14, 2016

Ontario Pesticide Act prosecutions have become infrequent since the Ministry of the Environment stopped having specialized pesticide enforcement staff.

In Encana Corporation v Devon Canada Corporation, 2012 ABCA 271, the Alberta Court of Appeal has confirmed that coalbed methane forms part of the natural gas title in Alberta.

On June 23, 2014, the Ministry of Environment introduced an administrative penalty program to encourage compliance with the Environmental Management Act and the Integrated Pest Management Act

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) has amended Ontario Regulation 419/05: Air Pollution, Local Air Quality to make the process of seeking exceptions to generic criteria less punitive and more useful to businesses.

A recent decision reiterates the importance of credible expert evidence in litigation relating to contaminated property.

What are Ontario’s biggest obstacles to job creation? According to employers contacting the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Ministry of the Environment is usually on their top 5 list.

In addition to seeing Canada assume the chair of the Arctic Council for the next two years, the recent Arctic Council’s Ministerial Meeting at Kiruna, Sweden, adopted an important legal text, the "Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic".

Fines imposed on individuals for environmental offences keep increasing.

One frequently troublesome area of environmental law is the intersection between different types of approvals. Once an overarching, project wide approval, such as an environmental assessment, has been granted, may an individual approval be refused?

On November 5, 2018 Irving Pulp & Paper ("Irving") was ordered to pay a penalty in the amount of $3.5 million for three offences under the Federal Fisheries Act.

On September 5, 2019, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change and British Columbia's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy announced they have signed an Impact Assessment Cooperation Agreement.

Canada's Minister of the Environment issued a notice on July 27, 2024, announcing a new mandatory PFAS reporting rule. In some ways, the notice is similar to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...

On March 5, 2008, the Federal Court of Canada remitted the environmental assessment for Imperial Oil’s proposed Kearl Oil Sands Project (the Project) back to the joint federal/Alberta review panel that had recommended the Project be approved.

Several Canadian provinces, like an increasing number of U.S. states, are actively contemplating adopting cap-and-trade schemes as one of the principal mechanisms to help reduce local greenhouse gas emissions – in some cases in coordination with other provinces and states but independent of the federal government’s climate change efforts.

Going after individuals for cleanups of historic contamination continues to pay off for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.

A contaminant is broadly defined to include dust.