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This Act honours a commitment made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to establish new reporting standards for Canadian oil, gas and mining companies.

The proposed amendments would increase pipeline companies' liability.

Polar Code environmental requirements adopted but GHG reduction targets for international shipping put off - again

Reforms intended to cultivate a new engine for economic and social development

Proposed amendments would add the following five toxic substances to the Toxic Substance Regulation

On March 21, 2015, the Minister of the Environment (“Minister”) published a Notice of a proposed Agreement entitled “Canada–Quebec Agreement on Acts and Regulations Applicable to Quebec’s Municipal Wastewater Treatment Sector” (“proposed Agreement”). The Minister also published a...

by Supriya Tandan April 7th, 2015 – Last year, in 2014 the Government of Yukon, following the example set by the Canadian Federal Government, amended its main environmental statute, The Environment Act  (“the Act”) to simplify and reduce regulatory uncertainty and...

Efforts to strengthen environmental protections in the oil sands could be stimulus for new recovery, remediation and restoration technologies