¶ Published Tuesday, September 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Interesting interview, in French, with Maude Barlow, who just finished her rotation at the UN’s water commission. She claims our water rights in Canada are progressively being sold off to private companies. Even more interestingly, she points out we do not have as much water as we might think. We are often told Canada has [...]
¶ Published Monday, September 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
In my latest article for National magazine, I assess some of the challenges facing lawyers and businesses in addressing the growing patchwork of climate change legislation.
¶ Published Friday, September 25th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Moving ever so swiftly, Ontario announced yesterday a series of Green Energy Act regulations that formally remove layers of municipal and provincial approvals for renewable energy projects. The MOE has now set up a one-stop agency to facilitate new approvals.
The MOE also officially launched the country’s first feed-in tariff, a key part of [...]
¶ Published Friday, September 25th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Hardly, according to the (albeit unscientific) calculations of theGlobal Footprint Network, a sustainability international think tank. The NGO has identified today, September 25th, as Earth Overshoot Day, a milestone that marks in this calendar year “the day when humanity begins living beyond its ecological means.” From now until the end of [...]
¶ Published Thursday, September 24th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
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¶ Published Thursday, September 24th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
Ontario Gets Even Tougher On Hazardous and General Waste Manufacturers, trucking companies and disposal sites handling waste must ensure that they don’t harm human health and safety or the environment. If they don’t, they could see life through an iron curtain.
- By Isaac Rudik at Compliance Solutions Canada, a Nimonik partner
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¶ Published Tuesday, September 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
China stole the show today at the the UN summit on climate change by stating its plans to invest massively in energy-saving technology and nuclear power. Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, also pledged to “cut carbon emissions per unit of GDP by a notable margin by 2020.” Pretty vague still, and it’s worth remembering that [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, September 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Legal Issues, Video ∞ No Comments »
We just put together a short video that tries to explain the new remediation certificates in Alberta, please leave your comment bellow. Much more information on the new requirements is available at www.nimonikapp.ca
¶ Published Monday, September 21st at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
While leaders have the power to change things, they rarely do. How do you make world leaders act? They are bogged down by political considerations, powerful lobbies, historical issues and gigantic bureaucracies with entrenched interests. To break the deadlock, the UN is planning on mixing things up at the upcoming Copenhagen climate change conference (Guardian [...]
¶ Published Sunday, September 20th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Connie Hedegaard, Denmark’s minister of climate and energy, will be hosting the UN-sponsored global climate treaty negotiations, to be held in Copenhagen in December. In the coming months, expect her to get a lot of media attention. The New York Times profiles her here.
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