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Budget 2010: Glimpses of green spending for water quality, forestry
Canada's Great Lakes, forestry sector, and First Nations' reserves are some of the areas that will receive m...
3/5/2010 | Full Story
Ont residents, politicians seek regs to distance gas plants
As Ontario edges closer to its goal of phasing out coal-fired power plants by 2014, hundreds of protesters are...
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PEI to change its EIA guidelines to improve wind energy development
Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) has amended its environmental impact assessment (EIA) guidelines for wind energy...
3/12/2010 | Full Story
BC university project aims to produce clean energy
A British Columbia (B.C.) university is about to embark on a first-of-its-kind bioenergy project that will red...
3/12/2010 | Full Story
NWT to fund creative reuse of paper, cardboard waste
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Ont seeking input on new environmental approval methods
3/11/2010 | Full Story
CSA unveils first certified GHG inventory quantifiers
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Great Lakes Restoration Legislation Would Authorize $650 Million Annually
3/11/2010 | Full Story
Public transit in Halifax gets green makeover
3/10/2010 | Full Story
New online tool to prevent workplace injuries in Ont
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Zero-waste methods to create jobs: report
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Call for abstracts for GHG measurement
3/8/2010 | Full Story
Conference to cut through greenwash
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Advanced Disposal acquires Excel Waste
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Demolition companies optimistic for 2010
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New Orleans to get waste-energy plant
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Ohio theatre group to receive free recycling bins
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Baltimore overhauls its garbage collection
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Brownfields talks come to Canada
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Canadian businesses prepare for emergencies
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Agricultural scholarship applications open
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Cdns to say why environment matters through contest
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BC to introduce new Water Act in spring 2011
The British Columbia (B.C.) Ministry of Environment has released a discussion paper on modernizing the province's Water Act. The Act is more than 100 years old, so there's plenty to discuss.
2/28/2010 | Full Story
Amendments to support source protection plans across Ontario
Proposed amendments to Ontario's General Regulation (O. Reg. 287/07) under the Clean Water Act, 2006 would provide more detailed specifications for the source protection plans that are mandated by the...
2/28/2010 | Full Story
Convictions
Proper planning may have prevented Que worker from drowning
Inefficient worksite planning was to blame for the death of a driver whose vehicle plunged through ice, acco...
2/5/2010 | Full Story
QC company facing fines after forklift runs over worker
Poor management of vehicle and pedestrian traffic led to the death of a worker who was struck by a forklift,...
1/28/2010 | Full Story
Legal Commentary
BC reinforces clean power policy objectives
Readers following renewable power development opportunities for independent power producers (IPPs) in Western Canada will know that on July 27, 2009, the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) r...
11/30/2009 | Full Story
Safety legislation applies in all workplaces
Recently, a trucker operating his own rig in Ontario was pulled over by the Ontario Provincial Police who observed him smoking while driving. He was issued a ticket under the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, w...
10/31/2009 | Full Story
Environmental class actions: importance of class description
On August 26, 2009, the Québec Court of Appeal upheld the Superior Court decision denying the authorization to institute an environmental class action in the Deraspe v. Zinc Électrolytique du Canada L...
10/31/2009 | Full Story
New currency of carbon tonnes in Canada: hints at $100+
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE), a federal Crown corporation, recently released a report entitled, "Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada", concluding ...
9/30/2009 | Full Story
Applying solicitor-client and litigation privilege to protect internal investigations
While conducting an internal investigation is laudable and often advisable from the perspective of maintaining a company's due diligence, such investigations can give rise to certain legal risks for the company. (See the December, 2007 issue of...
8/17/2009 | Full Story
Case Studies
Pottersburg PCBs 80 per cent gone
Most of the PCB-laced soil (more than 80 per cent) at Canada’s biggest PCB site in Pottersburg (in east ...
12/30/2009 | Full Story
EcoLog environmental conference hears from experts on the changing brownfields landscape
Michael Billowits says that 2009 was a "dog-eat-dog" year for the remediation industry in Canada.
"With the r...
11/13/2009 | Full Story
QC awards innovations in worker safety
More than 50 organizations in Quebec have been crowned for their innovative improvements to health and safety....
10/30/2009 | Full Story
Case studies: companies cut CO2, save green by greening IT
Organizations without a plan to reduce their computing carbon footprint could get left behind in the dark ag...
10/23/2009 | Full Story
Top eco-retailers reveal bare bottoms, other green practices
When two employees of LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics streaked naked through a senior management board meeting...
9/25/2009 | Full Story
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