If those ordered cannot afford to complete the work, leaving a site partially remediated, the MOECC may be forced to complete the work itself at taxpayers' expense.

In February 2007, a fire at a frozen food warehouse blew thick black smoke over Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood. Firefighters were so concerned about ammonia stored in the building’s refrigeration system that a tanker truck was brought in to siphon the contents of the ammonia storage tank.

The Haldimand Tract, an area 6 miles on either side of the length of the Grand River, was granted in 1784 to the Iroquois who had fought for the British during the American Revolution.

The recent Federal Court decision in Peguis First Nation v Canada examines the application of the duty to consult to four different First Nations. In this case, the Court held that while Canada...

Dry cleaners should be aware of new reporting requirements under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

The OMB dismissed a public interest group's appeal and ordered the group to pay the proponent $110,000 in costs. The OMB called the public interest group's conduct frivolous and unreasonable.

The government intends to stick more or less to its “Turning the Corner” plan released in 2007 – based on reducing “emissions intensity”, rather than absolute emission reductions.

Several articles in this newsletter reflect substantial new reporting requirements from federal and municipal governments. Others raise the spectre of federal duplication of provincial regulation of waste water treatment, and encroachment by Ontario on the federal role of toxics assessment, regulation and elimination.

Individuals and corporations considering pleading guilty and paying a small fine instead of appealing a charge should be aware of the hidden costs of their decision.

Ontario has begun to lay the technical groundwork for joining a North American cap-and-trade network designed to control and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

On February 7, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal (the "FCA") upheld the approval of the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (the "Project") in its decision in...

In the most recent decision in the ongoing Kawartha Lakes saga, the Superior Court of Justice found homeowner Mr. Wayne Gendron partly responsible for an oil spill that destroyed his lakeside property.

On May 19, 2016, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench released its decision in Redwater Energy Corporation (Re).

In a detailed and hard-hitting report released June 17, 2016, the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, said the government's Federal Sustainable Development Strategy "is not living up to expectations."

Recent amendments to the regulations under the Clean Water Act flesh out which approvals and permits will be subject to the mandatory requirements of source protection plans, and set out new policy tools that source protection committees can use to protect drinking water sources.

To kick things off, the Ontario Legislature has moved quickly on three major pieces of environmental legislation.

In Jay-Pee Drycleaners Inc v 2321324 Ontario Inc the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that when commercial landlords require tenant dry cleaners to comply with training requirements in the Ontario Dry Cleaners ...

SON received periodically updated lists of outstanding aggregate licence applications from the Crown.

The appeal decision in R. v Sunrise Propane Energy Group Inc. highlights the importance of being duly diligent and having preventative systems in place when conducting inherently dangerous business operations.

On July 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada released its unanimous decisions in Clyde River (Hamlet) v Petroleum Geo-Services Inc. and Chippewas of the Thames First Nation v Enbridge Pipelines Inc.