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When your land is contaminated by a neighbour, proving that it happened may not always be enough. In Midwest v. Thordarson, 2013 ONSC 775 the plaintiff Midwest Properties Ltd. purchased a property after obtaining a Phase I Environmental Assessment.

The Quebec government has taken an unorthodox, and controversial, approach to protecting an endangered herd of woodland caribou.

As we previously reported, the Quebec government last month issued an omnibus cleanup order respecting the Lac-Mégantic disaster, including orders of questionable validity against shareholders of parties which may bear primary responsibility.

Among the several amendments proposed by the Quebec government to the environmental regulatory framework in an omnibus package published in the Gazette officielle du Québec on February 22, 2023...

On February 2, 2010, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published new interpretive guidance (the Release) that clarifies the information companies with reporting obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws and regulations must disclose in documents they file with the SEC regarding the impact of climate change on the company, its business, financial conditions and results of operations.

Ontario's Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) has allowed another wind project Renewable Energy Approval (REA) appeal on the basis of environmental concerns.

It is not always clear what long-term impacts will result from current activities that impact the environment.

On November 14, 2011, Bill 9, the Natural Resource Compliance Act (the "Act"), received royal assent in British Columbia.

Last August, we reported on recent case law dealing with the difficult question of how to determine limitation periods in environmental claims. In the January 2017 Court of Appeal decision of Crombie Property Holdings Limited v. McColl-Frontenac Inc., the court overturned the trial court's decision that the case was started too late on the basis of "palpable and overriding errors".

Doris Bonora, from Denton's Canada LLP and a member of CAFA, discusses Neil's legal operating environment and other family farm business issues.

For the first time, Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal has revoked the Ministry of the Environment’s decision to grant a Renewable Energy Approval.

Ontario’s air standards and ambient air quality criteria (AAQC) have been updated for a series of carcinogens and other toxic substances.

The West Moberly First Nations were unsuccessful on October 24, 2018 (see 2018, BCSC 1835) in obtaining an injunction against B.C. Hydro and Power Authority from further construction and related activities on the Site C Project.

Now that the US EPA has classified TCE as a carcinogen, and dangerous at levels previously believed to be safe, what will happen to risk assessments and other regulatory decision-making in Ontario?

In Clarington Wind Concerns v Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change), 205 CanLII 51503 (ON ERT), the Environmental Review Tribunal ("ERT") has dismissed the latest twists in anti-wind litigation.

Biotechnology is increasingly driving scientific and technological advancements across a wide range of industries, including health, agriculture, energy and environmental remediation.

On December 16, 2019, the long awaited Environmental Assessment Act, R.S.B.C. 2018, c. 51 (the "New BCEAA") will come into force. Despite having received royal assent on November 27, 2018

Canada has a long and storied mining heritage and continues to be a global leader for mineral investment.