Title: “Open-for-Business” Planning By-laws, Drinking Water Safety, and the lessons of the Walkerton Tragedy: Legal Analysis of Schedule 10 of Ontario Bill 66 Resource Type: Report Content: CELAlegalanalysis-Bill66andCWA # of Pages: 18 Date authored: December 16, 2018 Author/s: Theresa McClenaghan…
Media Release FRANCAIS Dec 16 2018 Toronto – Today the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), which represented the Concerned Walkerton Citizens at the Walkerton Inquiry, released a detailed legal analysis (and associated briefing note) raising the alarm about the Ontario Government’s…
FRANCAIS Blog post by Theresa McClenaghan and Richard D. Lindgren, Executive Director and Counsel, CELA on December 7, 2018 CELA’s core mandate is to use and improve the law in order to safeguard the environment, protect the interests of low-income and vulnerable…
Read More Blog: Deregulation Redux – Ontario’s Environmental Laws under Attack (Again)
Blog post by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on May 22, 2018 In May 2000, seven people died, and thousands of people fell seriously ill, after consuming contaminated drinking water supplied by a municipal drinking water system in Walkerton, Ontario. On the…
Read More Blog: The Walkerton Tragedy- Lessons Learned and Unfinished Business
Media Release Oct 30 2017 Toronto – According to a letter sent to the Premier by sixteen environmental, health and labour organizations, Bill 154, an Act to cut unnecessary red tape, currently before the Ontario Legislature threatens the health, safety and environment of…
Read More Media Release: Bill 154 Threatens Health, Safety and the Environment of Ontario Residents
Title: Re: Bill 154, An Act to cut unnecessary red tape by enacting one new Act and making various amendments and repeals Letter to Premier Wynne from 16 organizations Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: L-Wynne-re-Bill-154 # of Pages:…
