Joshua Jantzi

Practice Areas

Josh Jantzi co-chairs DLA Piper’s Regulatory and Environmental Law group for Canada and is a partner in the Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto offices. ‎Josh has a highly regarded litigation and administrative law practice with a focus on environmental, energy regulatory, natural resource, Indigenous, ‎transportation, municipal, and constitutional matters.

Josh has acted for energy and mining companies in precedent-setting cases in the ‎regulatory review and environmental impact assessment of resource development, ‎most notably before the Supreme Court of Canada in Chippewas of the Thames First ‎Nation v. Enbridge Pipelines Inc., 2017 SCC 41.

Josh has presented cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, the superior courts of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario, the Federal Court and Federal Court ‎of Appeal, the Tax Court of Canada, Alberta Utilities Commission, Alberta Environmental Appeals Board, Ontario Land Tribunal (and its predecessors), Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, BC Environmental Appeal Board, ‎BC Utilities Commission, BC Agricultural Land Commission, Subdivision and Development Appeals ‎Boards (SDABs), and other municipal authorities. ‎He has also acted in proceedings before the Canada Energy Regulator, Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Natural ‎Resources Conservation Board, BC Environmental Assessment Office, and BC Oil and Gas Commission. ‎‎

Josh's environmental law practice includes acting in: investigations; impact assessment; land and water use; ‎management of contaminated sites and brownfield redevelopment; waste management and diversion; spills reporting and remediation; carbon pollution pricing and emissions credits; the lifecycle regulation of chemical substances; licensing, permitting, and product stewardship; protection of species at risk and cultural heritage; ‎transportation of dangerous goods, environmental risk in corporate transactions; prosecuting and defending against enforcement action; acting on behalf of regulators; administrative reviews and appeals before tribunals; and related civil litigation.

Josh's regulatory practice includes development, review and assessment of energy and natural resource projects including pipelines, upstream PNG production, LNG facilities, biogas and RNG facilities, hydro power plants, fracking operations and gas plants, wind farms, solar farms, marine terminals and shipping, water diversion works, open pit mines, forest product facilities, and waste management facilities.