CELA lawyer Richard Lindgren provides an update on CELA's successful 5 year-long battle to obtain Environment Ministry records on water well safety.
Blog: CELA Wins Five-Year FOI Fight on Water Well Safety
Tag: Clean Water Act
Healthy Waters and Sustainable Planning
Given cumulative assaults on regional forests and wetlands as well as the deterioration in local water quality and aquatic and amphibian species, a valid question arises: Is Ontario’s current system of land use planning protecting our waters?
Submission: Best Practices for Source Water Protection
CELA lawyers recently submitted a letter to Ontario's Environment Minister regarding the province's voluntary Best Practices for Source Water Protection.
Blog: World Water Day Highlights the Need for Water Justice
Reflections on water inequities in Ontario, and the need for expansion of the Clean Water Act.
Protecting Water in Ontario
Presentation on drivers of law reform to the University of Waterloo Collaborative Water Program
Blog: The Open Secret of Muskrat Lake
CELA Counsel Amanda Montgomery explains why residents of the Village of Cobden, who get their drinking water from Muskrat Lake, don't have the same source water protections as many Ontario residents.
