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Areas of expertise: Environmental assessment, environmental litigation, land use planning, water sustainability
Biography:
Richard Lindgren, B.A., LL.B., is a staff lawyer at Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA).
Since joining CELA in 1986, he has represented individuals, public interest groups, and First Nations before tribunals and in trial and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. His casework focuses on air and water pollution, environmental rights, environmental assessment, and administrative and constitutional law.
In addition, he was co-counsel for Walkerton residents at the Walkerton Inquiry, for which he and other CELA staff received Legal Aid Ontario’s GEM Award for Outstanding Achievement. He served as a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Class Action Reform, the Environment Minister’s Task Force on the Environmental Bill of Rights, and the Environment Minister’s Advisory Panel on Environmental Assessment.
He has written extensively on matters of environmental law and policy, and he has been a co-editor of the Canadian Environmental Law Reports since 1994. He teaches environmental law at Queen’s Faculty of Law and Trent University.
He and his wife live on an island in eastern Lake Ontario, and his interests include boating, fishing, camping, hockey, music, and history books.