Practice Areas & Industries: Lawson Lundell LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our Environmental Group is experienced in advising clients in all industries including oil and gas, pulp and paper, forest harvesting, mining, transportation (public transit, marine transportation and port facilities, railways, and truck transport), real estate investment, real estate development, aquaculture, and hydroelectric power generation.

Services Available

We provides advice and assistance to clients in all aspects of environmental law including: 

• Commercial transactions – due diligence, risk assessments, allocation of liability, representations and warranties, and indemnities
   
• Environmental management systems – training, compliance, liability of officers and directors, and environmental audits
   
• Environmental assessment of projects – federal, provincial and territorial environmental assessment processes, major projects, project descriptions, screenings, comprehensive studies and public reviews under the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, the Yukon Environmental And Socio-Economic Assessment Act, the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board, and the Nunavut Impact Review Board
   
• Regulatory and licensing requirements – applications for licences, permits and authorizations under the federal Fisheries Act, and provincial and territorial environmental management and protection acts, and water acts
   
• Contaminated sites – polluter, generator and responsible persons liability, allocation of liability, site remediation requirements, remediation cost claims, and certificates of compliance
   
• Reclamation, closure and remediation – bonding, security, and environmental trusts
   
• Environmental offences – spill reporting, inspections, investigations and defence of environmental prosecutions under the Fisheries Act and provincial and territorial environmental assessment management and protection acts

In additon, our Climate Change Group assists clients with a broad range of issues relating to the regulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are believed to be a cause of climate change.

For more information, please contact:

Brad Armstrong, Q.C. at barmstrong@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9126

Clifford G. Proudfoot at cproudfoot@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9217

John M. Olynyk at jolynyk@lawsonlundell.com or (403) 781.9472