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Supreme Court will not hear appeal of Smith v. Inco

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 25 2012

On April 26, 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada refused leave to appeal from the dismissal of Ellen Smith’s environmental class action concerning Inco’s refinery formerly located in Port Colborne

City of Vancouver to consider oil tanker and pipeline indemnification bylaw

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2012

On May 1, 2012, City of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson tabled a motion to have municipal staff prepare a by-law requiring oil tankers and pipeline operators to indemnify the city and local businesses for “worst case scenario” oil spills

B.C. clean energy vehicle program: recharging stations announced

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2012

B.C.’s Ministry of Environment announced at the beginning of April that the Clean Energy Vehicle Program is being helped by a $2.74-million Community Charging Infrastructure Fund that will be used to create 570 public charging stations across municipalities, regional governments, First Nations, and B.C. businesses and institutions by March 31, 2013

A step forward on solar: Ontario government publishes FIT 2.0 recommendations

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 26 2012

On March 22, Ontario’s Ministry of Energy announced its recommendations, developed after the completion of the comprehensive review of the Ontario Feed-in Tariff (FIT) Program

Oil sands and European Union Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) - an update

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 15 2012

In April 2009 the European Union adopted a new Directive (200930EC) revising an earlier FQD (9870EC) and requiring fuel suppliers to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of energy supplied for road transport

Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance - COSIA

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 15 2012

On Thursday, March 1, 2012, twelve of Canada’s largest oil sands producers announced the signing of a charter forming a new alliance under the banner “Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance” to tackle oil sands environmental issues through collaborative action and innovation

Aboriginal law 2011 a year in review

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 17 2012

The Federal Court found that the 2011 Census and National Household Survey did not infringe the equality rights (s. 15 of the Canadian Charter) of offreserve Aboriginal people because no distinction was made based on aboriginality or nonresidence on reserve

New monitoring system for oil sands introduced

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 6 2012

On February 3, 2012, the Federal and Alberta governments introduced the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring, a three-year implementation plan to enhance environmental monitoring of air, water, land, and biodiversity in the oil sands

Amendments made to the regulation respecting the application of Section 32 of the Environment Quality Act, the Groundwater Catchments Regulation, and the Regulation respecting waste water disposal systems for isolated dwellings

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • January 12 2012

On October 19, 2011, the Government made the Regulation to amend the Regulation respecting the application of section 32 of the Environment Quality Act, the Groundwater Catchment Regulation and the Regulation respecting waste water disposal systems for isolated dwellings, which was published in the Gazette Officielle du Québec on November 2, 2011, and it came into force on November 17, 2011

Oil sands information portal open for business

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 12 2012

On November 10, 2011, the Government of Alberta announced that it was rolling out the Oil Sands Information Portal to facilitate finding detailed information on the environmental performance of Alberta’s oil sand facilities

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