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Changes to British Columbia’s bio-product regulations
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada
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- July 1 2012
On June 26, the Canadian province of British Columbia’s minister of forests, lands, and natural resource operations announced regulatory changes to the Forest Act, Forest and Range Practices Act, and Wildfire Act that will help bioenergy producers and manufacturers access needed logging slash and wood waste fiber
Manitoba environmental plan
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada
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- June 24 2012
Canada’s Manitoba unveiled June 15 an eight-year environmental protection plan that calls for mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting, more focus on renewable energy, and minimal-impact mining and petroleum development
WTO to rule on Ontario domestic content rules in November
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, Global
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- June 17 2012
A dispute panel at the World Trade Organization announced plans to issue a ruling in November on the European Union and Japan’s joint filing challenging the Ontario's Feed-In Tariff program sourcing requirements and subsidies
RGGI compliance
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, USA
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- June 10 2012
A June 4 report released by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative says that of the 211 power plants subject to RGGI’s requirements, only five were not in compliance as a result of their failure to have allowances for all of their carbon dioxide emissions
Canadian oil sands studies
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada
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- June 3 2012
On May 30, Canada's Pembina Institute released “In the Shadow of the Boom: How Oilsands Development is Reshaping Canada's Economy” which argues the nation’s booming oil sands sector is harming Canadian manufacturing and artificially inflating the Canadian dollar
WTO rejects Canada’s challenge
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, Global
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- June 3 2012
A World Trade Organization panel rejected May 25 a procedural claim filed by Canada challenging dispute proceedings initiated by the European Union and Japan targeting alleged discriminatory sourcing requirements and illegal subsidies in Ontario’s Feed-In Tariff program
EU transport fuel ratings deferred
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, European Union
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- April 29 2012
The European Commission announced April 20 that the European Union will defer until 2013 a decision on a proposal (EU Fuel Quality Directive 200930EC) to assign pollution ratings to different transportation fuels, including those derived from Canadian oil sands
NA Leaders’ Summit
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, Mexico, USA
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- April 8 2012
President Obama hosted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderone April 2 for the North American Leaders’ Summit
NA mercury down
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, USA
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- March 18 2012
In an update of the Montreal-based trinational agency’s Tacking Stock online pollutant database, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation said March 15 that mercury emissions from the North American electricity sector fell 26 percent between 2006 and 2009
WTO Ontario FIT ruling forthcoming
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, European Union, Global, Japan
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- March 11 2012
A World Trade Organization dispute panel announced last week that it will issue a ruling by September on Japan’s claims that provisions in Ontario’s green energy program violate global trade rules
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- Workarea - Energy & Natural Resources
- Author - Daniel Phillips
- Jurisdiction - Canada