Environment

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Provided by Lawson Lundell LLP

Lawson Lundell’s Environmental Law Group 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 
• 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