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The Environmental Review Tribunal has granted a request to have expert witnesses testify via telephone conference call.

Two companies, Consbec Inc. and Bruman Construction Inc., were fined a collective total of $150,000 for failing to notify the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change of a fly-rock discharge.

The Environmental Damages Fund was established in 1995 to direct money received from fines and payments for environmental offences under 10 federal environmental statutes to worthy environmental projects.

Fielding Chemical can now sue the federal government for damages, for the extra costs it incurred in disposing of PCB waste because of federal orders closing the US border to PCB exports, and as a result of storing the PCB waste at its facility for additional years while losing the opportunity to use the land and equipment for other purposes.

On January 18, 2019, Fredrick Thomson, a taxidermist from Coaldale, Alberta, was sentenced following his conviction for illegally importing a brown bear hide from Alaska.

On December 8, 2016 an individual was convicted for transporting asbestos waste, storing asbestos

Source water protection is finally coming into force in Ontario.

Is a piece of flying rock really a discharge that must be reported under the Environmental Protection Act to the Spills Action Centre?

Section 194 of the Ontario Environmental Protection Act imposes substantial duties on corporate officers and directors, without defining who they are.

Nova Scotia has followed Quebec, and has launched its own investigation into the potential environmental hazards of hydraulic fracturing to produce shale gas, especially the impacts on water.

Hydraulic fracturing, in pursuit of shale gas, can cause serious groundwater problems, which are sometimes excused on the ground that the climate needs natural gas to displace coal.

There are currently 229 sites designated natural and mixed natural/cultural world heritage sites.

In Hanna v. MOE, what did the Decisional Court decide about the legal status of the Ministry of the Environment Statement of Environmental Values? Not much, in my opinion.

Municipalities can also regulate burning activities, and open air flames through the adoption of a by-law.

Imperial Oil Limited was recently convicted of breaching s.14 of Ontario's Environmental Protection Act ("EPA") for permitting the discharge of a contaminant into the natural environment.

The City of Kawartha Lakes has appealed to the Ontario Court of Appeal from a Ministry of the Environment Order, which imposed cleanup liability on the City for contamination it did not cause.

f you missed Dianne's well received interview on CBC's The Current, on lead, criminality and violence, you can listen to it here.