NB fishery fined $500,000 under Fisheries Act for illegal pesticide use
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On April 26, 2013, New Brunswick-based Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. pled guilty to the illegal use of the agricultural pesticide cypermethrin, which killed a number of lobsters when it was used in fish-bearing waters.
5/3/2013 | Full Story
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Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. in New Brunswick was fined a total of $500,000 after pleading guilty to releasing cypermethrin into fish-bearing waters in southwestern New Brunswick, contrary to the federal Fisheries Act. Cypermethrin is an agricultural...
4/30/2013 | Full Story
Manitoba claims North America's first ecosystem protection legislation
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Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh used Earth Day 2013 to table in the provincial Legislature what he claimed were the first legislative amendments in North America to protect essential habitats for endangered...
4/30/2013 | Full Story
BC fines total $165,235 in Q2; more than $680,000 in Q3 2012
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British Columbia (B.C.) Ministry of Environment has expanded the scope of its enforcement reporting with its third Quarterly Environmental Enforcement Summary to include community environmental justice forums, which the ministry says “are...
4/30/2013 | Full Story
EcoLog seminar explores risky business of environmental consulting and how to avoid litigation
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As a room full of environmental consultants listened to experts at EcoLog Legislation’s Environmental Liability Seminar in Toronto, the resounding message was that sooner or later a consultant will be sued, it’s simply a question of...
4/12/2013 | Full Story
BC's seven-year fish farm cap aims to solve declining salmon mystery
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The British Columbia (B.C.) government has imposed a seven-year cap on open-net fish farms along a key sockeye salmon migration route of the Discovery Islands near Campbell River.
4/5/2013 | Full Story
ONTARIO - environment legislation
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Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority: Regulation of Development, Interference with Wetlands and Alterations to Shorelines and Watercourses. Various amendments. Effective February 8, 2013.
3/31/2013 | Full Story
CANADA - environment legislation
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Canada National Parks Act. The description of Wood Buffalo National Park of Canada in Part 2 of Schedule 1 is amended. In force January 31, 2013.
3/31/2013 | Full Story
MANITOBA - environment legislation
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Little Grand Rapids First Nation Traditional Use Planning Area Regulation. New regulation under the East Side Traditional Lands Planning and Special Protected Areas Act. Effective December 14, 2012. Latest amendments effective December 21, 2012.
3/31/2013 | Full Story
Environmentalists, mining companies await federal tailings pond ruling in Newfoundland
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Following a February 2013 court hearing in Newfoundland, an East Coast environmental group is concerned that in the weeks or months to come — while it waits for the judge’s ruling — mining companies will continue to exploit a...
3/8/2013 | Full Story
