Blog posted by Sarah Miller, Researcher, Retired on October 1, 2013 For forty years CEHE partner organization the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) has worked to “protect human health and our environment by seeking justice for those harmed by pollution and by…
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Blog posted by Richard D. Lindgren, Counsel on September 6, 2013 When I first joined CELA in the mid-1980s, an intense public policy debate was well underway in Ontario on what to do with the ever-increasing amount of municipal solid waste (MSW)…
Blog posted by Rizwan Khan, Counsel on August 13, 2013 In my previous post, “Ontario’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program – Road Transportation”, I touched on how the Provincial government’s failure to address road transportation in its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Program meant that it was…
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' Blog posted by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on June 25, 2013 On the first anniversary of its untimely demise on July 6, 2012, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 1992 (CEAA 1992) is being remembered by environmentalists as an important attempt to…
Reprint (Ontario Bar Association - Environews - January, 2009) by Kaitlyn Mitchell The Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 (“EBR”) (1) was enacted to protect the environment by giving Ontario residents meaningful ways in which to participate in environmentally significant government…
Canadian municipalities have the power to restrict pesticide use thanks to the Supreme Court and Hudson, Quebec By Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher and Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director and Counsel, CELA. Originally published in Alternatives Journal, 31:2 (23-25) 2005. When the…
