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Environmental, Energy and Resources Law
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| We reported at the beginning of March that the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System was backing SNC-Lavalin's bid to acquire the commercial business of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. from [read more]Thursday, 21 April 2011 |
| As we previously reported, the federal government intends to ban most mercury-containing products and continues to seek comments on related matters such as compact fluorescent light bulbs ("CFL") [read more]Monday, 18 April 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline project cleared a key regulatory hurdle this week with the issue by the United States State Department of its supplemental draft environmental impact statement [read more]Saturday, 16 April 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| Québec Premier Jean Charest, accompanied by Nathalie Normandeau, Clément Gignac, Pierre Arcand and Sam Hamad, respectively the Ministers of Natural Resources and Wildlife and Minister [read more]Thursday, 7 April 2011 |
| The Alberta Government published the long-awaited regional plan for the Lower Athabasca region this week. The plan, made under the Land Stewardship Act, would protect approximately two million hectares [read more]Wednesday, 6 April 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| Implementation of the federal Environmental Enforcement Act (the "EEA"), first passed in June 2009, has recently begun. The EEA amends the enforcement and penalty regimes of nine federal [read more]Monday, 4 April 2011 | Sarah Robicheau |
| The government of Alberta has announced that it will extend the Incremental Ethane Extraction Program to promote the extraction of ethane and ethylene from refining and upgrading off-gas.
The [read more]Thursday, 31 March 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| TransAlta Corporation has announced that it will begin construction of 66-megawatt wind project located on the Gaspé Peninsula. Located in New Richmond, Quebec, the project will deliver power [read more]Tuesday, 29 March 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| Wind Concerns Ontario plans to appeal the Ontario Divisional Court's decision to dismiss Ian Hanna's challenge of the province's wind turbine regulations.
On Thursday, March 3, the [read more]Tuesday, 29 March 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| According to new research released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts, global clean energy finance and investment grew by 30% over 2009 to reach $243 billion in 2010. The clean energy sector therefore [read more]Tuesday, 29 March 2011 | Stephan Trudeau |
| The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, and Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec Deputy Premier, Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife and Minister responsible for the Northern [read more]Friday, 25 March 2011 | Stephan Trudeau |
| This is not strictly an energy related post, but today's post is interesting and important to those of us who are concerned with in health and safety in the workplace, and particularly the beginnings [read more]Friday, 25 March 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| On Thursday, March 17, 2011 Quebec's Minister of Finance, Mr. Raymond Bachand, tabled the province's 2011-2012 Budget. Figuring prominently among the budget's many announcements was the [read more]Monday, 21 March 2011 | Stephan Trudeau |
| The United States Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules last week which would require the installation of new technology to limit emissions of mercury from coal-fired power plants. The [read more]Monday, 21 March 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| he Alberta government announced this afternoon the details of its new Mine Financial Security Program.
In essence, the new program recognizes for mines that the asset in the ground (bitumen or [read more]Thursday, 17 March 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| June 30, 2011 marks the phase one deadline for certain Toronto business using substances including benzene, formaldehyde, and volatile organic compounds, such as, some solvents used in dry cleaning, [read more]Monday, 14 March 2011 | Sarah Robicheau |
| The National Energy Board announced on Thursday that it had issued a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline project.
This is the latest in a series [read more]Thursday, 10 March 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| Quebec's Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Mr. Pierre Arcand, today announced the release by the province's environmental assessment commission on the heated topic [read more]Tuesday, 8 March 2011 | Stephan Trudeau |
| Ontario Minister of Energy Brad Duguid announced the appointment of Rosemarie Leclair as Chair and CEO of the ontario Energy Board today. Ms. Leclair replaces Cynthia Chapline, who was appointed Vice-Chair [read more]Friday, 4 March 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| On Thursday, March 3, the Ontario Divisional dismissed Ian Hanna's application for judicial review of provincial regulations that established a minimum setback of 550 meters for wind turbines [read more]Thursday, 3 March 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| Environment Canada has published for comment a proposed order pursuant to which hydrazine would be added to Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
The proposal is based on screening [read more]Thursday, 3 March 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| The Alberta Government has proposed substantial amendments to the controversial Alberta Land Stewardship Act. Bill 10, the Alberta Land Stewardship Amendment Act, 2011, received first reading in the [read more]Tuesday, 1 March 2011 | Colin Lipsett |
| The province's statistics institute today unveiled its estimates for 2011, as well as preliminary year-end data for 2010.
In 2010, mining companies invested a record amount of $2.5 billion [read more]Tuesday, 1 March 2011 | Stephan Trudeau |
| On February 17, 2011, Ontario's Minister of Energy Brad Duguid issued three directives that will help shape the planning of generation and transmission in the province for years to come. The three [read more]Tuesday, 1 March 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| On Monday, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System ("OMERS") confirmed rumours that it would back SNC-Lavalin Group Ltd.'s bid to acquire the commercial business of Atomic Energy [read more]Tuesday, 1 March 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| The Canadian federal government has proposed a regulation under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act which would result in a ban on the manufacture and importation of most products containing [read more]Monday, 28 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| Following Tuesday's throne speech, the Alberta government released it's 2011-2012 budget on Thursday. The budget has been the source of much anticipation, with the recent announcement by premier [read more]Friday, 25 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| The Ontario Power Authority has awarded 40 new contracts for more than 872 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy under the FIT Program. The latest offers follow the completion of the second phase of [read more]Thursday, 24 February 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| The Alberta Department of Municipal Affairs is currently conducting public consultation on proposed changes to the Power Engineers Regulation.
The primary concern which has been expressed to the [read more]Thursday, 17 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| The Alberta government (through the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Corporation) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Canadian Natural Resources and North West Upgrading under which the [read more]Wednesday, 16 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| Davis LLP has just released a new bulletin discussing the following seven changes to Ontario's Feed-in Tariff ("FIT") program:
Removal of off-shore wind power from the FIT;
Extens [read more]Monday, 14 February 2011 |
| Alberta Environment has announced that it has laid charges against Statoil Canada Ltd under the Water Act.
The 19 separate charges relate to allegations by Alberta Environment that, during 2008 [read more]Thursday, 10 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| he Ontario Minister of Energy has directed the Ontario Power Authority ("OPA") to undertake a pilot program to sell, track and audit a limited number of environmental attributes ("EA") [read more]Thursday, 10 February 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| The Ontario Minister of Energy has directed the Ontario Power Authority ("OPA") to undertake a pilot program to sell, track and audit a limited number of environmental attributes ("EA") [read more]Thursday, 10 February 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| Having previously decided to exclude commercial aggregators from the microFIT program, the OPA announced on February 1 that it will be introducing a new stream in the Feed-in Tariff ("FIT") [read more]Thursday, 10 February 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| There has been plenty of discussion and opinion in the media over the last day regarding the possible effects of the announced London Stock Exchange - Toronto Stock Exchange merger. Some of that discussion [read more]Wednesday, 9 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| The TSX has proposed amendments to Section 319 of the Company Manual which would create a new subcategory of minimum listing requirements for oil & gas development stage companies.
The TSX [read more]Monday, 7 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission announced on Friday that it had issued a transport license and certificate to Bruce Power Inc. for the shipment of 16 decommissioned steam generators from the [read more]Monday, 7 February 2011 | Michael Styczen, P.Eng |
| The Ontario Ministry of the Environment will beging charging fees to process applications for Renewable Energy Approvals under the Environmental Protection Act as of March 15, 2011. The details of [read more]Friday, 4 February 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| Capital Power must continue offsetting the emissions of its Genesee 3 coal plant to levels equivalent to those from a natural gas combined cycle power plant. The Alberta Utilities Commission ("AUC" [read more]Monday, 31 January 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| On Monday January 24th, 2011, a panel of Ontario Divisional Court Judges began hearing the case of Hanna v. Minister of the Environment, a legal challenge to the Green Energy Act regulations that [read more]Wednesday, 26 January 2011 | Andrew Lord |
| The BC Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands has recently released its draft Proposed (Zero Net Deforestation) Implementation Plan which provides objectives, guiding principles and actions to meet [read more]Tuesday, 18 January 2011 | Angeline S.B. Nyce, R.P.F. |
| The Climate Action Secretariat of the Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Pacific Carbon Trust, the Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands and the Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and [read more]Friday, 14 January 2011 | Angeline S.B. Nyce, R.P.F. |
| Having received Royal Assent October 25, 2010, the Open for Business Act (the "Act") makes several amendments to the Environmental Protection Act (the "EPA"), the Ontario Water [read more]Wednesday, 8 December 2010 | Sarah Robicheau |
| ubmitted by Sarah Robicheau, Student-at-Law
A proposed Energy-from-Waste facility received Environmental Assessment Act environmental assessment ("EA") approval earlier this month. This [read more]Friday, 26 November 2010 |
| Submitted by Sarah Robicheau, Student-at-Law
On November 23rd, the Ontario legislature passed the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act (the "Act").
The Act has two key [read more]Thursday, 25 November 2010 |
| Bill C-300 (the "Bill"), titled An Act Respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries, was defeated in the House of Commons on October [read more]Monday, 1 November 2010 |
| Yesterdays cabinet changes separated the policy and administration, research and revenue portfolio of three former ministries (responsible for forests and range; energy, mines and petroleum resources; [read more]Tuesday, 26 October 2010 | Angeline S.B. Nyce, R.P.F. |
| The Ontario government is once again thinking about its long term plans for electricity supply in the province. Continuing a strategy that began with the suspension of the 2007 Integrated Power System [read more]Tuesday, 21 September 2010 | Andrew Lord |
| Davis LLP is attending this year's edition of the World Energy Congress (WEC 2010), taking place in Montreal from September 12 to September 16. This major global energy gathering held internationally [read more]Sunday, 12 September 2010 | Stephan Trudeau |
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