Biography
Joanna Vince, B.Sc. (Hons.), J.D., is a partner and Certified Specialist in Environmental Law by the Law Society of Ontario at Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP. She has significant expertise representing a wide range of clients with environmental issues, civil claims and prosecutions, orders and appeals. Joanna provides advice about environmental aspects of the purchase, sale, remediation and development of contaminated land. She helps quantify and manage environmental risk, provides solutions for environmental due diligence and compliance, and assists with negotiations with environmental regulators to prevent orders and prosecutions. Joanna also helps clients navigate the environmental regulatory process, environmental assessments and approvals for manufacturing and other industry, energy, mining, natural resource and infrastructure projects, and helps clients obtain approvals for air, noise, waste and sewage.
Joanna represents plaintiffs and defendants in environmental civil litigation. She also defends individuals and companies against environmental regulatory prosecutions. Joanna appears before administrative tribunals including the Environmental Review Tribunal, Ontario Municipal Board, National Energy Board and Ontario Energy Board to appeal or uphold regulatory orders and approvals. She advocates for client interests in energy and transmission projects and pipelines.
Joanna advises First Nation and Inuit communities, resource proponents, and environmental boards and tribunals connected with natural resource development in Canada’s near and far north.
In addition to her law degree from the University of Toronto, Joanna also received a Certificate in Environmental Studies and a B.Sc., (Hons., High Distinction) in Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Toronto. Joanna is called to the bar in Ontario, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories.