Blog: Erroneous message from Canada’s nuclear regulator could allow nuclear energy projects to escape federal environmental assessment

FRANCAIS Blog post by Kerrie Blaise, CELA Counsel on December 6, 2018 A message about federal environmental assessments is being circulated by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, one of Canada’s energy regulators, with the potential to undermine the fundamental principles of Canadian…

Blog: Pipelines, Environmental Assessment and the Rule of Law

Blog post by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on September 14, 2018 The Federal Court of Appeal recently overturned the Government of Canada’s approval of Kinder Morgan’s proposal to triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline system that currently…

Blog: Canada’s Impact Assessment Act – Myth vs. Fact

FRANCAIS Blog post by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on July 23, 2018 In late June, Canada’s much-hyped Impact Assessment Act (IAA) received Third Reading in the House of Commons. The proposed law has now been referred to the Senate for review during the fall…

Re: Information Requirement and Time Management Regulations under CEAA

Title: Re: Information Requirement and Time Management Regulations under CEAA Submission by CELA to the Government of Canada regarding Consultation Paper on Information Requirement and Time Management Regulations Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: 1191-CELALetterInformationTimingRegulation # of Pages: 8…

Approach to Revising the Projects List

Title: Approach to Revising the Projects List Submissions by CELA to the Government of Canada regarding Consultation Paper Resource Type: Response to Consultation Content: 1186-CELASubmissionsReProjectListingCriteria # of Pages: 15 Date authored: May 28, 2018 Publication number: 1186 Author/s: Richard D.…