A new approach to assessing resource projects coming down the pipeline?
The environmental review of proposed resource projects in Canada continues to undergo changes of late. Back in 2012, a duo of omnibus bills–Bill C-38 and Bill C-45–introduced significant changes to the way in which resource projects, such as the construction and expansion of pipelines. These…
View the post titled A new approach to assessing resource projects coming down the pipeline?Feds publish proposed microbeads ban
The federal government will go ahead with a ban of microbeads in personal hygiene products. We wrote last summer about both the then-Conservative government’s announced intention to institute a ban as well as the problems to Canadian waterways posed by the presence of microbeads in per…
View the post titled Feds publish proposed microbeads banPMRA intends to end conditional registration of pesticides
Health Canada recently announced that as of June 1, 2016, it intends to end the federal practice of granting conditional registrations of for pesticides. Under the Pest Control Products Act, SC 2002 c28, (“PCPA”), Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (“PMRA”) is task…
View the post titled PMRA intends to end conditional registration of pesticidesFurther wind litigation in the Oak Ridges Moraine: Part II
Recently, the Environmental Review Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) allowed in part the appeal of a Renewable Energy Approval (“REA”) approving the construction of a wind turbine facility in the Oak Ridges Moraine Area in the City of Kawartha Lakes (the “Project”). The Tribunal concluded that, with…
View the post titled Further wind litigation in the Oak Ridges Moraine: Part IIFurther wind litigation in the Oak Ridges Moraine: Part II
Recently, the Environmental Review Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) allowed in part the appeal of a Renewable Energy Approval (“REA”) approving the construction of a wind turbine facility in the Oak Ridges Moraine Area in the City of Kawartha Lakes (the “Project”). The Tribunal concluded that, with…
View the post titled Further wind litigation in the Oak Ridges Moraine: Part IIFurther wind litigation and the Oak Ridges Moraine: Part I
Another appeal of a Renewable Energy Approval (“REA”) for a wind turbine project has made its way to, and been refused by, the Environmental Review Tribunal (“ERT”). The appeal in SR Opposition Corp v Director, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, 2015 CanLII 86926 (ON ERT) concer…
View the post titled Further wind litigation and the Oak Ridges Moraine: Part IThorco seeks leave to appeal to Supreme Court of Canada
On January 26, 2016, Siskinds LLP filed an Application for Leave to Appeal on behalf of John Thordarson and Thorco Contracting Limited (“Applicants”), seeking leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision. The court awarded Midwest Properties Ltd. judgment against the Applicants, jo…
View the post titled Thorco seeks leave to appeal to Supreme Court of CanadaSunrise Propane Explosion: $5.3 million in fines
After convictions in 2013, Sunrise Propane Energy Group Inc., 1367220 Ontario Inc., c.o.b. as Sunrise Propane, and two corporate directors, Shay Ben-Moshe and Valery Belahov, have been fined a total of $5.3 million, exclusive of the 25% victim fine surcharges (VFS). Sunrise Propane owned a p…
View the post titled Sunrise Propane Explosion: $5.3 million in finesMethane catastrophe in California: implications for cap and trade
Southern California is, at this very moment, in the throes of what is potentially the most prolific gas leak to have ever occurred. The disaster–a methane leak at a natural gas storage facility in Porter Ranch, California–has yet to galvanize the kind of media and popular attenti…
View the post titled Methane catastrophe in California: implications for cap and tradeNorthern Gateway Pipeline requires provincial environmental approval
A BC court has declared that an agreement (Agreement) between the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office and the National Energy Board is invalid to the extent it purported to remove the need for an environmental assessment approval under BC’s Environmental Assessment Act (EAA). Th…
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