Last blog added on Monday, May 14th, 2012

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Enviroptix is published by Nick Spillane - Brisset Bishop.
Bilingual blog on environmental law in Quebec and Canada.

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Moot Court on Twitter
December 14th, 2011

West Coast Environmental Law has announced that it will be hosting the world`s first Twitter Moot on February 21, 2012. Law students from several universities will debate a simulated case dealing with First Nations land rights in the face of mining development. It's said to be the first time that... Read more »

Shoreline buffer zones - Quebec Court of Appeal affirms Wallot judgment
June 30th, 2011

You'll recall that in April 2010 Quebec Superior Court rendered judgment in the Wallot case, deciding that a municipality's imposition of a shoreline buffer zone was legitimate; see my post at the time. The Quebec Court of Appeal has now, by judgment April 20th, dismissed the appeal taken by the... Read more »

Bill 89 - First sessions (May 4th-5th) of detailed Committee review
May 6th, 2011

Quebec's Bill 89 will greatly ramp up offence and other sanction provisions under the Environment Quality Act. Minister of the Environment Pierre Arcand yesterday introduced section-by-section committee review of Bill 89 by noting that the government will be proposing a number of amendments to the B... Read more »

Bill 89 - detailed committee review begins
May 4th, 2011

The Quebec National Assembly's Transportation and Environment Committee begins today its detailed (section-by-section) review of Bill 89 (amending the Environment Quality Act's enforcement provisions). The bill would greatly increase fine levels and revise its penal regime generally, including the i... Read more »

Bruce Power judicial review still in preliminaries
April 26th, 2011

Federal Court judicial review proceedings in relation to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's decision in early February to grant a transport license for Bruce Power's decommissioned generators are still in the preliminary stages. A motion is before the Court to join the two sets of proceedings,... Read more »

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