Media Release: Grassy Narrows sues Ontario over mercury health threat from clearcut logging

Media Release Ground breaking case invokes Charter to protect First Nation community from toxic harm Toronto – Today the Grassy Narrows First Nation is filing legal proceedings against Ontario asking the Divisional Court to overturn provincial plans for a decade of clearcut logging…

Media Release: OPAL Files Legal Challenge Against Ministry Approval of Quarry Effluent Discharges into Lake near Ingersoll

Media Release Ingersoll - The Oxford People Against the Landfill (OPAL) Alliance has applied to Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal for leave (permission) to appeal an environmental approval recently issued to Carmeuse Lime (Canada) Limited. The approval was issued by the…

Media Release: Environmental Groups Demand Censored Nuclear Risk Study

Media Release Ottawa ‐ Environment groups are asking the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) today to release a suppressed study detailing the weaknesses of offsite emergency response at the Darlington nuclear station in the event of a Fukushima‐scale accident. “The…

Workshop: The Legal Toolkit October 27, 2015

Sustainability Network, Ecojustice and the Canadian Environmental Law Association Present: The Legal Toolkit Join us on Tuesday October 27th at the Sustainability Network offices in Toronto for this one-day training session. The workshop will be hosted by John Swaigen of Ecojustice who has designed…

Media Release: Canadian and U.S. Governments need to shift focus to prevention to keep toxics out of the Great Lakes

Media Release Binational action on toxics slowly sinking due to glacial pace of planning Work to get toxics out of the Great Lakes is moving so slowly that it may take more than a century to even list all the…

Media Release: Public Hearing on Leaking Landfill to Conclude with Parties’ Final Argument

Media Release Napanee - After weeks of detailed technical evidence, the public hearing on the leaking Richmond Landfill Site will conclude next Monday when the parties present their final arguments to Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal. The Tribunal hearing will be held…