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Environmental Law

Published by: Mark Lowey
in Environmental Law, Issue 2 & 3, Volume 18
            A Court of Queen’s Bench justice in Calgary has found that an Imperial Oil Limited pipeline leak exposed a portion of a southern Alberta family’s cattle herd to hydrocarbon contamination.
            The Ball family, which owns the Ball Ranch near Bragg Creek west of Calgary, launched a lawsuit against Imperial Oil in 2004. The dispute began in the summer of 2002, when Agnes Ball, 72, returned from a weekend vacation to find a huge pit dug near a sour gas pipeline running through land where some of her cattle grazed. The leased land has been in the family since the 1940s.
            That year,…

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      • The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
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      • Energy, Agriculture Need Joint Planning on Land and Water Use
      • Water Use Transformation Required by Agriculture,
      • Climate Change Industry Must Plan Now For Climate Change Impacts, Water Shortages, Experts Say
      • Skeptics Wrong in Doubting Human-Caused Global Warming, Geologist Says
      • Businesses “Blindfolded” By Policy Uncertainty Around Climate Change
      • Tougher Regulations, Push for Harmonization Expected on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      • Canadian Forest Industry’s Drive to Reduce Emissions Hurt by International Practices
      • Provinces, States Driving Climate Change Policy
      • B.C. Sees Opportunity in Growing Global Market On Carbon Trading
      • Carbon Tax or Carbon Trade: Price on Carbon Needed to Achieve Big Emission Cut
      • CCS Touted for Reducing Emissions, But Faces Cost and Regulatory Hurdles
      • Buildings in Canada are responsible for about 35 per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions...
      • Community Action, Government Leadership Needed on Sustainability To Prevent Societal Collapse
      • ‘Skeptical Environmentalist’ Calls for New Strategies On Global Warming
      • Action Elsewhere Will Force Faster Emission Reductions In Alberta and Canada, Experts Say
      • Canada’s Kyoto Targets Unreachable; Government’s Climate Change Plan Overly Optimistic, NRTEE Says
      • Carbon sequestration, end to oil “addiction” touted as solutions
      • Federal plan receives kudos, brickbats
      • Nearly two-thirds of senior technology leaders do not have a defined energy strategy
      • B.C. government announces “climate action” cabinet committee
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