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Ontario amends Renewable Energy Approval regulations
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- Canada
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- August 8 2012
On July 1, 2012, amendments to O. Reg. 35909 the Renewable Energy Approval (REA) regulation came into force
Changes to federal environmental assessment regime
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- Canada
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- March 31 2009
On March 12, 2009, the federal government amended the existing Exclusion List Regulations, 2007 and issued the new Infrastructure Projects Environmental Assessment Adaptation Regulations (the Infrastructure Regulations), both under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA
Superior Court stays remediation orders because of creditor proceedings
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- Canada
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- April 2 2012
On March 9, 2012, the Ontario Superior Court decided several motions regarding five Ontario properties formerly owned by Nortel Networks Corporation, including one property in which Nortel retained a partial interest
Proposed toxic substances reduction legislation
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- Canada
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- April 30 2009
On April 7, 2009, the Ontario government introduced Bill 167, the Toxics Reduction Act, 2009, into the legislature for first reading
Code of practice for metal mines released
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- Canada
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- July 31 2009
On June 27, 2009, Environment Canada issued an Environmental Code of Practice for Metal Mines (the Code), which describes the operational activities of the metal mining sector and associated environmental risks
Court decision on mining facility disclosure
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- Canada
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- June 2 2009
On April 23, 2009, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision that requires Environment Canada to report, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA), data from mining facilities regarding their releases or transfers of certain pollutants to tailings and waste rock disposal areas as part of the annual National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI
Cosmetic pesticides ban
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- Canada
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- April 30 2009
Ontario’s ban on the use and sale of pesticides for cosmetic (i.e., deemed by the government to be nonessential) purposes took effect on April 22, 2009
Modernizing federal environmental sentencing
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- Canada
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- March 31 2009
On March 25, 2009, Bill C-16, the Environmental Enforcement Act, underwent second reading in Parliament
Court affirms decision to order “innocent” landowner to remediate its property
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- Canada, USA
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- July 3 2012
The Ontario Divisional Court recently upheld the Environmental Review Tribunal’s decision, which in turn upheld an order that required the City of Kawartha Lakes to remediate the contamination on its land resulting from a heating oil spill on a neighbouring property
New Environmental Assessment Act comes into force
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- Canada
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- August 8 2012
On July 6, 2012, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (Act) came into force, replacing the former Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
