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Environmental Compliance Tips and Insights

Environmental Compliance Tips and Insights

Posted by on Dec 5, 2024 in Blog |

If you have a question about an environmental compliance issue, or would like us to address a specific environmental compliance issue in the future, contact Christopher Paré, P.Geo., Q.P. at 519-948-7300, ext. 114. Environmental Compliance Tips and Insights 2024 January: Ontario RPRA Excess Soil Fees for 2025   Do we know the RPRA regulatory fees for excess soil for 2025? Yes. Recently the Ontario Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) published the 2025...

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Additional GHG Regulations for the Oil and Gas Sector

Additional GHG Regulations for the Oil and Gas Sector

Posted by on Nov 26, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

The federal government continues to develop additional regulatory framework surrounding sustainability and climate-related issues.  The most recent focus is on the Oil and Gas sector.  We also cover a new voluntary sustainability program and new commitments made by the Canadian Government at the Conference of Parties (COP) 29. Oil and Gas Sector GHG Cap The Government of Canada recently (Canada Gazette, November 9, 2024) released the proposed “Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse...

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Environmental Enforcement Across Canada

Environmental Enforcement Across Canada

Posted by on Nov 12, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

Enforcement of environmental laws can result in penalties and fines ranging from a few-thousand dollars up to seven figures or more.  In 2020, Volkswagen paid a $196.5 million fine for the class action settlement in what became known as “dieselgate” or “emissionsgate.” This was on top of the agreement to provide benefits and buyback options to Canadian consumers of the non-compliant vehicles up to a maximum of nearly $2.4 billion Regardless of the amount of the fine,...

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Amendments to Ontario’s Excess Soil Regulations

Amendments to Ontario’s Excess Soil Regulations

Posted by on Oct 31, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

The next phase of Ontario’s excess soils regulations is set to take effect on January 1, 2025, (limiting soils that may be landfilled).  Ahead of this deadline, there are (additional) proposed amendments to Ontario Regulation 406/19. You may recall that in January 2022, contractors were scrambling to comply with the more stringent soil management requirements.  By April 21, 2022, these new requirements were officially paused by the Ministry of Environment,...

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The Federal Government Announces Framework to “Modernize” CEPA

The Federal Government Announces Framework to “Modernize” CEPA

Posted by on Oct 15, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

On October 2, 2024, Steven Guilbeault, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Mark Holland, Minister of Health Canada (HC) announced a framework to “protect the right to a healthy environment through the modernization and administration of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act” (CEPA). In the announcement, they state that the public will have an opportunity to comment on several initiatives including the following: A Draft Implementation Framework...

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Six-Figure Environmental Fines in the News

Six-Figure Environmental Fines in the News

Posted by on Oct 2, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

While issues such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and managing excess soils are often the topic of discussions at conferences and meetings, it’s still “routine” environmental compliance issues that get the attention of the public, as well as provincial and federal regulators. Below we provide some recent environmental enforcement news, all of which are six-figure fines. Six-Figure Recycling Violation On July 1, 2023, the Blue Box program under the Ontario Resource...

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