Green Energy Act
The Green Energy Act will be introduced to the Legislature by George Smitherman today. If he intends the Bill to be effective, it will hopefully contain steps to guarantee: a right to connect to the electrical grid; fair and predictable pricing for electricity sold to the grid; easier sit…
View the post titled Green Energy ActPollution Probe
Dianne is proud to announce that she has been invited to join the Board of Pollution Probe, one of Canada’s most experienced and respected environmental organizations.
View the post titled Pollution ProbeCarbon offsets and ISO 14064
Canada played a key role in developing the voluntary international standards for quantifying greenhouse gas reductions, ISO-14064 and 14065. After all that hard work, it’s wonderful to see a Canadian government taking them seriously. Both standards are key features of British Columbi…
View the post titled Carbon offsets and ISO 14064Barry Spiegel
All of us extend our condolences to the family of Barry Spiegel, a wonderful man and excellent environmental lawyer who died last week. Throughout his long battle with cancer, he remained brave, kind, and thoughtful. We are glad to have known him.
View the post titled Barry SpiegelNanomaterials- are we protected?
Canada's regulators are struggling to catch up with the explosion of nanotechnology.
View the post titled Nanomaterials- are we protected?OEB gives green energy a boost
Ontario Energy Board amended Ontario's electricity Distribution System Code, making it easier, faster and simpler for small generation projects to get connected to the grid.
View the post titled OEB gives green energy a boostLots of concern about brownfield proposal
If the Ministry of the Environment adopts the very stringent new standards it has proposed, it must offset them with major improvements to risk assessment or risk sterilizing numerous contaminated sites, with grave environmental and economic consequences.
View the post titled Lots of concern about brownfield proposalABSOLUTE DISCHARGE UNDER CEPA
Environment Canada urgently needs to re-examine its approach to enforcement. Serious punishment should be reserved for those who had some reason to know that what they were doing was wrong.
View the post titled ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE UNDER CEPAContaminated Sites for Executors and Trustees
Contaminated property can exhaust the entire assets of an estate; in extreme cases, the personal assets of the executor can also be at risk.
View the post titled Contaminated Sites for Executors and TrusteesDisappointing budget
If Thomas Friedman is right, in his compelling bestseller, Hot, Crowded and Flat, Canada has just thrown away a major opportunity to build a successful future. This week’s federal budget will create an $85 billion deficit, without creating the clean, sustainable energy supply that our …
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