Richard Lindgren blogs about CELA's historical and current casework representing citizens or citizen groups facing environmental risks from existing or proposed landfill projects.
Tag: Environmental Assessment Act (EAA)
Environment Minister Revokes Environmental Assessment Approval for Controversial Landfill in Eastern Ontario
Download the Media Release here: Media Release (December 18, 2019) December 18, 2019 – Township of Edwardsburgh-Cardinal Today the Citizens Against the ED-19 Dump (CAD) applauded the decision by Environment Minister Jeff Yurek to revoke an outdated environmental assessment approval…
Recent Environmental Assessment Reforms in Ontario
Considerable public and political debate continues to accompany the Impact Assessment Act, which was enacted by Parliament in June 2019 as part of the omnibus Bill C-69.
Environmental Assessment – The (Dead) Letter of the Law
Download 58-page slide deck here: Castrilli-EA-ToolkitWksp-2019
Decline of environmental law, public oversight in Ontario’s North
Posted by Kerrie Blaise, CELA Northern Services Counsel on June 6, 2019 Article originally published May 10, 2019 online in The Lawyer's Daily Ontario is witnessing a swift and disturbing de-evolution of its key environmental laws. The province has proposed to further add to the…
Bill 108, More Homes, More Choices Act, 2018
Title: Re: Bill 108, More Homes, More Choices Act, 2018 Presentation and Written Submissions to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy review of Bill 108 Resource Type: Letter, Presentation, Response to Consultation Content: 1279-CELA-SubmissionRe-Bill-108 # of Pages: 63 Date authored:…