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Congratulations to Canadian filmmaker, Rob Stewart, for his moving and urgent film, Revolution.

Last year, Castonguay Blasting lost its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada against a conviction for failing to report flyrock as an environmental "discharge" under the Environmental Protection Act. Now they have been fined $75,000 for essentially the same offence on another occasion.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has announced another round of consultations on Modernization of Approvals.

Despite major concerns raised by a substantial cross section of Ontario businesses, the Ontario Minister of the Environment is pushing forward with his proposed Waste Reduction Act.

George Duncan has kindly passed on a copy of his presentation to the MOE lab staff on the inherent uncertainty in the current Reg 153/04 sampling protocols for contaminated sites.

We’re looking for help on a research project relating to remediation of hexavalent chrome in soil and groundwater.

December 12 is the deadline for submitting comments to the federal Pest Management Regulatory Agency about its weak regulation of the bee-killing pesticides, neonicotinoid insecticides.

In our continuing effort to "Walk the Talk", we always try to pick green and socially constructive suppliers for our law firm.

We want to add our voice to those congratulating and thanking Premier Wynne for stepping in to rescue the world class environmental research station, the irreplaceable Experimental Lakes Area that the federal government shuttered.

On March 9, 2011, Scotland Agromart Ltd. was fined $75,000 for failing to notify the ministry of a pesticides spill.

Recently the BC Ministry of Environment released an intentions paper for consulting on three aspects of BC's land based spill preparedness and response regime.

The Internet has been an enormous boon to those needing to keep up with municipal bylaws.

A Niagara Escarpment Hearing Officer recently had to decide how many unsuccessful efforts to contact an appellant were enough. Dr. Deborah Truscott appealed a proposed municipal park development.

I can’t resist telling you that geotechnical engineer Shoshanna Saxe and web developer Micah Zarnke have released a new app that uses the GPS, camera and other features of an iPhone to improve the ease and accuracy of field logging of boreholes.

Manitoba government has stopped using public money to buy single use bottles of water.

The Ministry of the Environment has published an organization chart on its website.

I am intrigued by the potential of a newish gadget to improve odour monitoring, including self-monitoring by regulated entities.