ArticleClimate change: How strong is the evidence?Is climate change science "real science"? Can climate change experts give expert evidence in court?CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleCompany Breaches Order, Director Goes To JailThe sole corporate officer and director of Green Diesel Canada Ltd. has gone to jail, because his company breached a court order to pay restitution for illegal dumping.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleCongratulations To The New MPsWell earned congratulations go to all three winners of yesterday’s federal election: the Harper Conservatives, who got their majority and may now succeed the Liberals as Canada’s "natural governing party"; the Layton NDP, who became the Official Opposition with a chance at government some day; and Elizabeth May, who won the Green Party’s first elected seat in Parliament. CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleDebtors’ Prison For Bankrupt Contaminated Sites?The Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal has dismissed an appeal from an individual ordered to clean up the historic contaminated site of a bankrupt company in Brighton, Ontario.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleDo Municipalities Need New Powers To Combat Climate Change?We have blogged previously on municipalities flexing their muscle on environmental goalsCanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleEndangered Species Regulations Go To Court Of AppealEnvironmental groups will get a second chance to try to strike down regulations that weakened Ontario's protections for endangered species and their habitat.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleEnvironmental Commissioner Examines Municipal Water Use, Energy Consumption, And Climate ChangeThe Environmental Commissioner of Ontario has published her Annual Energy Conservation Progress Report, entitled Every Drop Counts (the "Report").CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleEnvironmental Compliance Approvals Start TodayThe new environmental compliance approvals regime starts today in Ontario. CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleEnvironmental Fines Keep Going Up: $299,000 For Construction WasteTwo companies and their directors were fined $299,999 (including the 25% victim fine surcharge) after pleading guilty to dumping construction waste on an unlicenced site in Mississauga, and failing to clean it up.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleFirst Imprisonment Under CEPA For Dry CleanerAt the end of February, Environment and Climate Change Canada posted a notice about its "first-ever imprisonment" of a dry cleaner under the tetrachloroethylene regulations.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleFirst "Permit By Rule" Approval SectorsOntario’s new environmental approvals system is proposed to have two streams: a detailed Approvals Process (to be called Environmental Compliance Approval) for more complex situations, similar to the current certificates of approvalCanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleFood, Climate Change And The UnabomberAccording to major climate change denier, the Heartland Institute, people who believe in climate change are like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, and other terrorists.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleGrassy Narrows Victory And Renewable EnergyThe Grassy Narrows First Nation has won an important legal victory, affecting Ontario lands north of the English River, the "Keewatin Lands". CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleHunting Convictions For Shooting DecoysA conservation officer saw two individuals sitting in their truck strategically located in order to observe the decoys with binoculars.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleIllegal Collection Of Migratory Bird Eggs Results In $18,000 FineOn March 27, 2019, three individuals in Quebec pleaded guilty to two counts each under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, S.C. 1994, c. 22, or unlawfully disturbing migratory bird nests...CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleIs Alberta Greenwashing Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions?Alberta frequently claims to be "greening" its dirty, fossil-fuel industries: coal and oil sands. CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleIs The 310 Waste Garbage Fire Case Over Again?In the fall of 2004, there was a terrible garbage fire at a grossly overloaded waste transfer site on Keele Street in Vaughan, Ontario.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleMerchants Of DoubtEver wondered why good science has lost so much traction in public policy, especially in the US? CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP
ArticleModernization Of Approvals A Big Step In The Right DirectionThe Ministry of the Environment’s Modernization of Approvals process is starting to make a real difference: kudos to Marcia Wallace, Doris Dumais and the others involved.CanadaEnvironmentSiskinds LLP