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Post-Copenhagen climate change update - a special Gowlings report

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 11 2010

One of the "Canadian" stories at the recent Copenhagen Climate Change Summit was the constant attempt by the Governments of Quebec and Ontario and the Mayor of Toronto to distance themselves from the position of the Federal Government

Chief Drinking Water Inspector releases annual report

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 20 2010

The Chief Drinking Water Inspector of Ontario released his Annual Report for 200809 on September 29, 2010

Aboriginal consultation and accommodation: new guidance from the Supreme Court of Canada (Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. v. Carrier Sekani Tribal Council)

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 9 2010

In its decision in Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. v. Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, released October 28, 2010, the Supreme Court has provided new guidance on key questions surrounding the duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal groups

Canada's clean energy sector likely to see pluses and minuses from the U.S. mid-term elections

  • Lane Powell PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • November 11 2010

As the dust is still settling from the November 2 mid-term elections in the United States, Canadian businesses may be picking up mixed signals about the future for developing and selling clean energy to the U.S

Supreme Court comments on the role of administrative tribunals in addressing adequacy of aboriginal consultation and accommodation

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 1 2011

In the early 1950s, pursuant to a water license granted to it by the Crown, Rio Tinto Alcan (“Alcan”) dammed and re-routed the Nechako River in the course of constructing electrical generation facilities required to power its aluminum production plant

Québec's Plan Nord: Nunavik representatives meet in Kuujjuaq with Québec government officials

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 4 2011

On March 3rd, representatives from Nunavik met with Québec Government officials in Kuujjuaq to discuss the province's ambitious northern development plan, the Plan Nord

Election 2011: Canada's climate change future

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 27 2011

With the federal election just a few days away, we thought it would be useful to our readers to identify what each major political party's published campaign platform says about climate change and Canada's role in curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Election perspectives: environment

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 4 2011

Canada’s 41st General Election resulted in a few firsts

"New social and environmental obligations for mining companies in Quebec", focus on mining, June 2011

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • June 14 2011

On May 12, 2011, the Government of Quebec tabled before the National Assembly Bill 14, a new bill aiming to modernize mining law in Quebec in the wake of the unveiling of the Plan Nord, of which mining development was made a key aspect

BC municipalities addressing climate change through new regulation

  • Lawson Lundell LLP
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  • Canada
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  • August 3 2011

In partnership with the provincial government, thirty-six BC municipalities have opted into a new regulation that requires all new homes to be built “solar hot water ready.”