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We learn even more from the Enron decade

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 5 2009

If an express provision in an agreement contains plain language, one party cannot allege that steps contrary to this provision were required to be taken by the other party by virtue of industry practice

Ontario tables ambitious green energy legislation

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 6 2009

The Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009, which would enact a new Green Energy Act and amend 21 provincial statutes to facilitate the development of renewable energy projects and encourage energy conservation, was tabled in February 2009 and is currently being studied by legislative committee

The “hardship fund” in CCAA proceedings

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2009

In Re EarthFirst Canada Inc., Justice Romaine had to consider establishing a “hardship fund” that would be used to allow EarthFirst Canada Inc. (“EarthFirst”) to pay pre-filing obligations owing to certain suppliers and contractors operating in a remote community where EarthFirst is developing a wind farm project

Proposed amendments to standards of disclosure for oil and gas activities

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

Oil and gas companies that are reporting issuers have specific reporting obligations for their various activities

Are tar sands doomed on a life cycle GHG emissions analysis?

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • February 27 2008

Section 526 of the recently enacted Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007 prohibits the Federal Government (including the US military, of course) from procuring alternative fuels whose life cycle GHG emissions are greater than those from conventional sources

Mining exploration and the Crown’s duty to consult aboriginal peoples: the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s decision in Platinex v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 11 2007

On May 1, 2007, G.P. Smith J. of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rendered his judgment in Platinex v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation ("Platinex Decision"), a case involving an application by a First Nation for an injunction to prohibit a mining company from carrying out test drilling on provincial Crown lands

Major utility shareholders must seek approval

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 29 2009

Due to a recent Ontario Energy Board ruling, any shareholder holding more than 20 of the shares of an electricity distributor in Ontario must now seek leave from the Board before it can increase its shareholdings in the distributor

The Green Energy Act: green energy unbounded

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 30 2009

Ontario’s proposed Green Energy and Green Economy Act (Green Energy Act) signals a profound shift in the role of renewable energy in the province

Federal budget promotes clean tech, carbon capture and storage

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 30 2009

Canada’s 2009 federal budget includes support for the clean technology industry and introduces measures intended to benefit developers of carbon capture and storage technology, an emerging area

Canada's 2008 federal budget includes good news for mining sector

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 7 2008

The February 26, 2008 Canadian federal budget did not contain much in the way of significant tax changes