I had the pleasure today of attending a lecture given by Angel Gurría, the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) at the Munk School of Global Affairs in theUniversity of Toronto,. The Secretary-General emphasised the failure of current international efforts … Continue reading
As Kathleen’s Wynne’s government releases Ontario’s 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP), Delivering Fairness and Choice, Patrick Brown’s Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) prepares to vote on two policy resolutions that seek to unwind major parts of the Liberal environmental strategy. Among the recommended policy resolutions … Continue reading
The Energy East pipeline review application is at an end. TransCanada wrote to the National Energy Board (NEB) on October 5, 2017 formally withdrawing its applications for the Energy East Project, Asset Transfer (Energy East) and Eastern Mainline Project (EMP) (collectively, … Continue reading
Today, Québec Premier Philippe Couillard hosted Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and California Governor Edmund G. Brown in Québec City to sign an agreement linking the carbon markets of Québec, Ontario and California. In stark contrast to current U.S. federal thinking, … Continue reading
Premier Philippe Couillard of Québec and Premier Kathleen Wynne of Ontario today attended the official signing of the historic electricity trade agreement between Hydro-Québec and the Independent Electricity System Operator of Ontario (IESO in Montreal today. Under this agreement, the … Continue reading
I was delighted to to join the roster of speakers at Hazmat Management Magazines’ Remediation Technology Seminar at the Mississauga Convention Centre in Mississauga today., The seminar provided an overview of new developments in remediation technology in Canada and discussed how new regulations will … Continue reading
We are pleased to publish this guest post from our friends and colleagues at the Edmonton office of McLennan Ross LLP, where the author, Sarah Levine is an associate. On November 3, 2016, the Alberta government publicly released the anticipated first … Continue reading
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In a new report on flood damage limitation, the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo has found that all 10 Canadian provinces and Yukon are less prepared for floods than they could be. The report, Climate Change and … Continue reading
Nearly 200 countries struck a landmark deal in Kigali on 15 October 2016 to reduce the emissions of powerful greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), in a move that could prevent up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of … Continue reading
On September 23, at the mid-point in the Ontario government’s mandate, Premier Kathleen Wynne released her mandate letters to the new cabinet and their ministries. Our readers will be especially interested in the mandates given to the Ministries for Environment and … Continue reading
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