The National Energy Board (NEB) is now accepting Applications to Participate in its hearing of an application to grant approvals to construct Transcanada’s Energy East Pipeline. This post gives some details of the project, application to participate and participant funding but does not substitute for … Continue reading
Bloom Lake General Partner Limited was ordered to pay $7.5 million in the Criminal and Penal Division of the Court of Quebec in Montreal today, after pleading guilty to 45 charges under the Fisheries Act, resulting from several incidents including … Continue reading
In our post dated December 7, 2012, Provincial Clean-up Orders Can be Stayed and Compromised in Canadian Insolvencies, we discussed the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador v. AbitibiBowater Inc. (Abitibi). That case decided that provincial environmental clean-up orders … Continue reading
Expulsion of fly-rock from a blast was a “discharge” of a “contaminant” out of the normal course of events that should have been reported to the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) under section 15 of Ontario’s Environmental Protection Act (Act). “Impairment of the … Continue reading
Ontario’s Court of Appeal issued its decision in the Kawartha Lakes case on May 10, 2013. The question at the heart of the appeal was whether a clean-up order against the City of Kawartha Lakes under the Environmental Protection Act should be … Continue reading
In its decision released on Friday December 7 , 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada held that provincial environmental clean-up orders may be “claims” that can be stayed and compromised under the federal Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36 (“CCAA”). In Newfoundland … Continue reading
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