Business Law

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…

Canada's regulators are struggling to catch up with the explosion of nanotechnology.

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.

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.

Contaminated property can exhaust the entire assets of an estate; in extreme cases, the personal assets of the executor can also be at risk.

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 …

Proposed plaintiffs in the Sunrise Propane class action have won a court order, forcing provincial regulators to immediately turn over photographs, videos, and parts of witness statements concerning the explosion site.

Developers and banks are expressing strong concern to the Ministry of the Environment about the impact of proposed standards for contaminated sites.

President Obama began today a major, and long-overdue shift in US energy and environmental policy, and a reassertion of American leadership on international issues such as climate change.