Myriam Fortin
Global Guide 2024
Band 3 : Environment
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Myriam Fortin is counsel in the Environment and Energy Groups, and heads our environmental practice in Montréal. She acts on a wide range of corporate, transactional and environmental litigation matters of a business clientele and advises and represents clients in their dealings with both private parties and governmental authorities with respect to all regulatory and contractual environmental issues which may arise in the context of new projects, ongoing operations, purchase and sale transactions, reorganizations, leases, financing, change in land use or the cessation of activities. Her practice notably includes all questions relating to environmental authorizations, environmental impact assessment, hazardous materials, land contamination, off-site migration, site remediation and restoration, water withdrawals, effluent discharges, air emissions, noise, and other environmental regulatory requirements, climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and cap and trade systems, and public environmental disclosure.
She has represented businesses operating in a wide variety of industry sectors, including mining, energy, chemicals manufacturing, metal transformation, waste management, contaminated soil treatment, forestry, pulp and paper, petroleum products, textiles, aerospace, communications, real estate, financing, PPPs, hydro and wind generation, food, agriculture, pharmaceutical products and numerous other product manufacturing industries.