Here is the decision in Hartley vs Cunningham, and the press release on this landmark tree ruling.

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.

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.

Canada has yet to release its GHG numbers to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (or at least they aren’t yet posted on the UNFCCC site) despite a reporting deadline of April 15.

Here is Dianne’s presentation to the Canadian Bar Association Mid-winter meeting in Halifax, on Contaminated Site Litigation after Inco.

1231028 Ontario Limited O/A Fallingbrook Auto Garage and John Sookrah were fined $45,000 for Drive Clean Violations.

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

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.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the Ministry of the Environment Order requiring an innocent victim of a spill, the City of Kawartha Lakes, to clean up oil from a domestic fuel spill.

Samples that are not properly taken, recorded, handled and analyzed are useless in court, and can lead to unjustified enforcement proceedings.

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.

The National Energy Board is set to provide facilitated discussion on emerging issues in oil and gas safety management at Safety Forum, 2013 in Calgary this week.

For those interested, here is a copy of Trillium Power vs. The Queen (Ontario), Trillium’s Statement of Claim against the province of Ontario over Ontario’s on-again, off-again policy of encouraging offshore wind development, which is currently under a moratorium again.

The Ontario election forced by the NDP has killed three long-awaited proposed environmental laws that the Ontario Bar Association has so long requested.

Grist has assembled the 32 most alarming climate change charts from the draft report of the US National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee.

For some exciting, detailed thinking about how greening the Greater Toronto Area could actually work, focussing on transportation, read the handbook from the MOVE! Charrette, held recently at Evergreen’s Brickworks.