Bizarre rules on Record of Site Condition
Here’s another bizarre rule about Records of Site Condition for contaminated sites where land-uses change:
View the post titled Bizarre rules on Record of Site ConditionAir Quality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Transportation
Environmental Guide for Assessing and Mitigating the Air Quality Impacts and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Provincial Transportation Projects. To provide a more defensible evaluation of the air quality/ greenhouse gas impacts of highway projects, used in environmental assessments, the Ministry…
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Now, for some good news: The latest report on the Green Transition Scoreboard® describes $3.3T of private investments in the green economy since 2007. This is a significant jump since last year and shows that, while the traditional global economy is quite stagnant, the green economy is grow…
View the post titled Green transition scoreboardBP civil claims trial start delayed
Civil claims arising from the explosion and oil spills of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig were scheduled to start trial today before U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. More than 500 lawsuits against BP PLC and other defendants were consolidated into one of the largest multidistrict litigatio…
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Dianne spoke to an attentive audience at the Ontario Bar Association’s Annual Institute on the ten top environmental civil cases of 2011 (and the first part of 2012).
View the post titled Ten top environmental civil cases in 2011WSIB benefits for traumatic mental stress: There’s good news and …
You may think that the WSIB pays benefits to a worker for traumatic mental stress only in situations where the worker was involved in a situation perceived as or actually life-threatening. And you would have been right until recently, when the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Appeals Tri…
View the post titled WSIB benefits for traumatic mental stress: There’s good news and …Punishing cost to protect natural area
How much should municipalities have to pay to preserve sensitive areas? Windsor paid so dearly in Windsor (City) v. Paciorka, 2011 ONSC 2876, that other municipalities may be loath to try. The City expropriated 267 lots to preserve an environmentally sensitive area. The developer refused the…
View the post titled Punishing cost to protect natural areaWind and health: an Australian update
Here is another comprehensive website on wind turbines and claims of adverse health effects, this time from Australia, but which follows information from around the world. Australia is also the site of a thorough literature review on the topic by the National Health and Research Council, whi…
View the post titled Wind and health: an Australian updateEcojustice victory for endangered species
Why doesn’t the federal government protect endangered species without Ecojustice* taking them to court? In December 2010, Ecojustice won their lawsuit against the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans for failing to protect killer whale habitat in B.C. In its plan to protect the w…
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1197338 Ontario Inc. was fined $150,000 plus the 25% Victim Fine Surcharge for failing to comply with a Director’s Order to clean up a spill of PCBs; its president, Lawrence Brander was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the same offence. But why did the spill occur?
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