Richard Lindgren blogs about CELA's historical and current casework representing citizens or citizen groups facing environmental risks from existing or proposed landfill projects.
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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Today the Citizens Against the ED-19 Dump (CAD) applauded the decision by Environment Minister Jeff Yurek to revoke an outdated environmental assessment approval…
Reducing Litter and Waste in Our Communities: Discussion Paper. Response to Environmental Registry No. 013-4689
Title: Reducing Litter and Waste in Our Communities: Discussion Paper. Response to Environmental Registry No. 013-4689 Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: Response-Waste-Disc-Paper # of Pages: 13 Date authored: April 18, 2019 Author/s: Richard D. Lindgren, Emily Alfred, John…
Comments on Ontario Climate Change Plan
Title: Comments on Ontario Climate Change Plan Resource Type: Response to Consultation Content: 1220-CommentsOnOntarioClimatePlan_0 # of Pages: 14 Date authored: November 16, 2018 Publication number: 1220 Author/s: Jacqueline Wilson & Kerrie Blaise Author Organization: CELA
Citizens ask Auditor-General to probe origins of plan to create a giant mound of radioactive waste beside Ottawa River
Jun 26 2017 (Ottawa) A petition to the federal environment commissioner Julie Gelfand, filed on June 20 with the Office of the Auditor-General, seeks the commissioner’s help in probing the origins of the radioactive waste dump proposal that has been ringing…
30 in 30: Confessions of a CELA Lifer
Posted by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on February 2, 2016 Incredibly, 2016 marks my 30th year at CELA. Since it is customary to sit back and reflect upon such milestones, here are 30 memories (good, bad and ugly) over the past 30…