We cannot allow the the month come to and end without celebrating the 10th anniversary of Manning Environmental Law, which took place on October 1. We are very proud to have been established for 10 years and take the opportunity … Continue reading
Under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, Environment and Climate Change Canada is responsible for protecting migratory birds, their nests, and eggs and for regulating potentially harmful human activities that may affect them. Environment and Climate Change Canada reports that in … Continue reading
Environment and Climate Change Canada reports that, on May 21, 2020, Scamp Industries Ltd., a fuel supplier based in Western Canada, was fined $200,000 in the Provincial Court of British Columbia after pleading guilty on June 17, 2019, to five … Continue reading
In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme “World Environment Day is a day of … Continue reading
I am delighted to have been included by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in its 2020 ranking of Canada’s Leading Environmental Law Practitioners and to have been “repeatedly recommended” by my peers in Lexpert’s survey. Thank you to all my … Continue reading
The Ontario government has made the Temporary Exemptions Relating to Declared Emergency (Regulation) exempting all proposals for policies, acts, regulations and instruments from posting requirements under the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) and removing the requirement to consider Statements of … Continue reading
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War Two this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill, according to the chair of a network of scientists providing benchmark emissions … Continue reading
I am very pleased to have been named again by Who’s Who Legal: 2019 as a global leader both in Environmental Law and Climate Change Law . Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in business law since … Continue reading
Volkswagen AG was ordered to pay an unprecedented $196.5 million fine in the Ontario Court of Justice on January 22 after pleading guilty to 60 charges for offences under federal environmental legislation. Volkswagen AG pleaded guilty to 58 counts of … Continue reading
The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Resolute FP Canada Inc. v. Ontario (Attorney General) deciding that an indemnity given by the province to private corporations did not extend to the … Continue reading
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