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When abroad, I have often bragged about Canada’s legal system, how competent and respected are our courts and how no one is above the law. But this boast has taken a blow in the area of climate change and the Kyoto Protocol.

To be successful on an appeal, the appellant must show that the renewable energy approval granted causes serious harm to human health.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has stayed the Ostrander Point wind approval pending an appeal by the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists.

Unimin operates an open-pit Nepheline Syenite mine and related processing facilities near Kasshabog Lake near Havelock.

On April 9, 2016, almost six years after passing legislation to allow for "administrative monetary penalty orders as environmental enforcement tools, the federal government has released draft regulations for comment.

An MOE order for financial assurance can be enforced even after the business has closed and been evicted from its premises, and even without a full hearing by the Environmental Review Tribunal.

The BC Court of Appeal has ordered well-known anti-fish farm activist Don Staniford to pay $75,000 in damages because the mock cigarette packages he had made criticizing Norwegian-owned fish farm companies lacked footnotes or other appropriate citations.

Two Alberta construction companies have been convicted under the Fisheries Act for rupturing municipal water mains, discharging chlorinated drinking water into storm sewers and fish habitat.

Canada’s most contaminated site, the Yellowknife Giant Mine, has reached a milestone in its $1 billion taxpayer-funded remedial plan.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the Environmental Review Tribunal, refusing to allow an innocent landowner, City of Kawartha Lakes, to lead evidence about the actual polluters.

City of Kawartha Lakes taxpayers continue to pay heavily for the Ministry of the Environment’s 2009 order, which required the City to cleanup an oil spill that it did not cause.

A recent report published by the Conference Board of Canada has found Ontario to be the top environmental performing province in the country based on 9 criteria.

In 2011, we wrote about the innovative stormwater fee adopted by Kitchener, Ontario, following English and American precedents.

As we have previously blogged, the GLPA had already twice been introduced before dying on the order paper.

Getting rid of coal in electricity generation made Ontario Canada’s leader in reducing GHG emissions. Now that we have a remarkably climate-friendly electrical system, what about other uses of coal in Ontario?

Most of the "Open for Business Act" changes to Ontario environmental laws won’t take effect till next year or so. But one important change has already happened: they may be able to make you talk.

At the same time that Ontario is pushing ahead to build the Windsor Essex highway through the habitat of several endangered species, the Ministry of Natural Resources is "initiating the development of a government response statement" concerning the proposed recovery strategies for some of the same species