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- British Columbia Contaminated Sites – New Requirements Start Feb. 1, 2021
On February 1, 2021, new reporting requirements in British Columbia will apply to owners and operators of lands that have been used for specified commercial and industrial uses. These reporting requirements will also trigger environmental investigation requirements to determine whether or not the la … Read more »
- Government of Canada Introduces Bill to Implement United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Today, the federal government introduced in Parliament Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. This blog provides some background on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the new federal bill. The United Nations Dec … Read more »
- Strategic Assessment of Climate Change – New Guidance for the Federal
Impact Assessment Act
On July 16, 2020, the federal government released the Strategic Assessment of Climate Change, July 2020 (“SACC”). The SACC includes rules and obligations that apply to designated projects under the federal Impact Assessment Act (“IAA”). In particular, the SACC outlines requirements for project propo … Read more »
- Does My Project Need an Environmental Assessment? The New Reviewable
Projects Regulation in B.C.
On December 16, 2019, several regulations came into force under B.C.’s new Environmental Assessment Act (the “New BCEAA”). The most notable of these is the new Reviewable Projects Regulation (the “New RPR”), which sets out the types of projects that are automatically reviewable (i.e. subject to the … Read more »
- The New Law of the Land: The Administrative Law Trilogy
What is undoubtedly an early holiday gift for administrative law practitioners, the Supreme Court of Canada has revealed a new framework for dealing with the standard of review in administrative law cases. The court has overruled previously standing precedence across the country in order to bring gr … Read more »