Agency seeks comments on proposed changes to activities requiring an environmental assessment *

Canada - April 22 2013
The Canadian Environment Assessment Agency (the "Agency") has issued a Public Notice regarding proposed amendments to the Regulations Designating…

Co-authors: Christopher R. Bystrom .

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BC and Canada agree to single environmental assessment process *

Canada - March 26 2013
The British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office (BC EAO) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Environmental…

Co-authors: Kevin O’Callaghan, Danielle Bryant.

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Fracking foes split over proposed regulation *

USA - March 21 2013
The Illinois State General Assembly is moving a bill through the legislature that sets the framework under which hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in…

Co-authors: David Both .

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Supreme Court of Canada disagrees over expansion of the duty to Aboriginal groups *

Canada - March 13 2013
In Manitoba Métis Federation Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 SCC 14, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal from judgments of…

Co-authors: Kyla Stott-Jess , Brenden Hunter.

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Blowout caused by fracking leads to new regulations *

Canada - December 19 2012
On December 12, 2012, the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) released a report on the blowout of an oil well that occurred earlier this year near Innisfail, Alberta.

Co-authors: David Both .

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