Canada won’t perform an environmental review of most new oilsands projects. Here’s why.
The future of development in Alberta’s oilsands lies in underground, steam-assisted operations that represent some...
Many of the largest environmental battles in Canada’s history have been fought in front of a judge and gavel. From the Canadian constitution and international commitments to local bylaws, environmental law is shaping the future of Canada’s wilderness, oceans, suburbs, farmland and cities.
Environmental law is penetrating into the public conversation more now than any other time in living memory. But it can seem dense. (Let’s be honest: it is dense.) Never fear — we bring you dynamic legal experts, thoughtful advocates and Indigenous scholars and knowledge-keepers to make sense of Canada’s changing legal landscape.
The future of development in Alberta’s oilsands lies in underground, steam-assisted operations that represent some...
From dinosaur bones to ancient plant life, hundreds of thousands of fossils have been taken...
Nearly 180 scientists say impending legislation leaves the task of collecting evidence for major project...
The province’s little-known Environmental Assessment Office has broad discretionary powers, including the authority to select...
Landowners once promised a fair share for hosting oil and gas infrastructure on their properties...
Experts examine subterranean snot, philosophize about how to warn future civilizations away from buried arsenic...
Four years after the Mount Polley mine first spilled contaminated waste into a once-cherished body...
Province takes first steps to improve system that makes industry consultants responsible for environmental monitoring
With the reappearance of gold mines in the province comes an all-too-familiar playbook: international extractive...
In a rare rebuke, the United Nations has instructed Canada to suspend construction of the Site C dam on B.C.’s Peace River until the project...
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