General Information About Our Firm’s Environmental Law Group Of Experts
We provide comprehensive services in environmental law services, providing quick and efficient help to our clients. Amongst the areas that we cover consist of civil and regulatory disputes, environmental compliance and transactional work.
In each of our regional offices we have a group of environmental law practitioners who are fully skilled in various practice orientations, such as Fisheries Act issues and forestry matters, municipal law, energy regulation, land expropriation, and insurance litigation. We are knowledgeable in the commercial applications of Environmental Law and could help with the environmental aspects of re-organizations, financing and acquisitions.
Environmental Compliance
We often assist with remediation projects completion, compliance review and environmental management systems development for both public and private sectors clients. Our experience consists of the following: regulation of air and water emissions, remediation of complex groundwater and soil contamination, approval of engineered processes, and import/export and transport of regulated substances.
Transactions
Our practitioners are skilled transactions lawyers, representing clients in the negotiation of difficult acquisitions, divestitures, and financings. We assist in real estate transactions comprising re-development, leasing, and financings, along with brownfields acquisitions. managing and structuring comprehensive environmental due diligence exercises on a national basis needs a high level of skillfulness and knowledge. Our experience in this field helps our clients formulate practical and innovative business solutions to environmental matters.
Litigation
We are leaders in disputes arising from pollution incidents which cause property damage and personal injury. We assist in resolving forestry matters, class action suits, environmental protests, insurance claims, and court proceedings involving contaminated site clean-ups.
Insurance Coverage
In situations where insurance coverage problems are triggered by major environmental claims, we act as counsel; for instance, we have provided coverage opinions arising out of contamination associated to major flooding events, landfill sites, large industrial facilities, asbestos claims, industrial explosions, and other significant incidents with adverse effects on the environment.
Project Approvals
Our lawyers advise and act for proponents of projects requiring environmental approvals under federal and provincial environmental assessment legislation. Our work includes the representation of clients in relation to petrochemical plants, electric transmission lines, hydro electric and thermal generating stations (consisting of combined cycle and cogeneration plants), upstream gas and oil facilities (comprising gathering pipelines, production and exploratory wells, gas plants, and oil batteries), natural gas pipeline facilities, oil sands development, and oil, high vapour pressure natural gas liquid facilities. We even provide services for parties affected by these types of projects.
Our knowledgeable teams of lawyers cover a broad range of resource development and energy-related applications and proceedings representing gas and oil businesses, federally and provincially regulated pipeline companies, petrochemical manufacturers, privately owned and government water, electric, and natural gas utilities. We likewise work extensively with First Nations on project approvals.
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