Reducing Emissions: How to Achieve Net Zero in the Built Environment
The materials that we use to shape the built environment are largely human produced—and it can be easy to forget that all the ingredients that go into those materials come from the earth.
Sembcorp on a corporate journey to go from brown to green
It aims for its sustainable solutions portfolio to comprise 70% of the group's net profit by 2025, up from around 40% in 2020.
Feds give city $18 million for well cleanup
The City of Medicine Hat could cut its entire abandonment costs at the controversial Manyberries oilfield in half thanks to a newly awarded $18 million from a federal government fund to pay for well cleanup in environmentally sensitive areas.
Rising municipality charges stalling efforts to develop green buildings in Canada
Rising development charges and insufficient incentives are stifling some major municipalities’ efforts to encourage developers to build green.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Montréal two years ago, he promised to plant two billion trees by 2030 to help Canada meet its...
Many of Canada’s Indigenous communities are in need of new infrastructure, from water assets and better roads to stronger schools and clean energy.
10 Tips for Canadian Companies when Environmental Regulators Call
Canadian companies operating in environmentally sensitive industries face a complex set of regulatory obligations that may transect federal, provincial, and municipal governments.
Northern Sask. Mine Cleanup to Cost Roughly $1.6M
The Saskatchewan government has a price tag for cleaning up an abandoned northern mine. The provincial government is paying two companies roughly $1.6 million to remediate the former Newcor gold mine near Creighton.
Transitioning to a circular economy has been identified as a way to reduce the environmental...
North Bay Reaches $20 million PFAS Cleanup Agreement with DND
The City of North Bay and the DND have reached an agreement that will see the federal government fund the majority of costs related to the remediation of (PFAS) at Jack Garland Airport.
Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks Proposing Four New Initiatives
The Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks (MECP) is proposing four new initiatives. According to the MECP these initiatives include...
Why liability insurance did not cover the defence of a remediation order
An eastern Ontario municipality does not have coverage with any of its four former liability insurers for a dispute with the provincial environment ministry over alleged pollution occurring more than six decades ago.
What you need to know: Ontario’s plan to grow the size of the Greenbelt
In Feb 2021, the Province of Ontario announced its plan to grow the size of the Greenbelt. The Greenbelt Plan and A Place to Grow: Growth plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe work together to provide a framework for where and how growth should be accommodated in Southern Ontario.
Ontario Making it Easier to Report Polluters
The Ontario government is launching a new user-friendly online tool so the public can conveniently report incidents of pollution in real-time from a smartphone.
A Battle for the Integrity of the Ontario Environmental Protection Legal System Looms
Lawyers for Earthroots and their allies will present themselves before Ontario's Divisional Court from May 17-20 asking the justices to...
Province putting money from environmental violations into local projects
The Ontario government is supporting community projects that help protect and restore the environment by investing $900,000 in grant funding...
Significant Amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act Proposed
On April 13, 2021, Bill C-28 – Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act (“Bill”) was introduced in the House of Commons. Among other things, the Bill proposes amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (“CEPA” or “Act”).
Ontario’s New Excess Soil Regulations – Construction Contract Implications
On January 1, 2021, Phase One of Ontario’s new On-Site and Excess Soil Management Regulation, and supporting amendments took effect under the Province’s EPA.
New legislation can be a first step towards environmental justice
After years of campaigning by committed activists, environmental groups and health advocates, the federal government...
An Update to CEPA – A long time coming or too little, too late?
On April 13, 2021, the federal government brought forward the Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act or Bill C-28.
