Alberta’s energy regulator ordered to take a new approach to punishing environmental crimes
A recent ruling aims to curtail conflicts of interest and corporate greenwashing via ‘creative sentencing,’...
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.
A recent ruling aims to curtail conflicts of interest and corporate greenwashing via ‘creative sentencing,’...
The largest oil spill in the province’s history has researchers calling for stronger oversight while...
Internal documents released via Freedom of Information laws show that, while the B.C. government was...
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...
In April 2013, a group of Guatemalan farmers, among them Adolpho Augustin Garcia, converged outside the front entrance of Vancouver-based Tahoe Resources’ Escobal mine. Located...
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