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Ontario amends Renewable Energy Approval regulations

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • 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

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 8 2012

On July 6, 2012, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (Act) came into force, replacing the former Canadian Environmental Assessment Act