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Conflicts Between Insolvency Law and Environmental Law: Impacts on Directors' Liability

Hear about how the 2011 changes to the Modified Generic Risk Assessment (MGRA) and traditional Risk Assessment (RA) regimes have played out on the ground.

Directors and officers face increasing personal exposure for environmental liability. Ensure your natural resource and energy clients understand their exposure and how they can mitigate the risk of liability for environmental contamination.

Wastewater is liquid waste (including liquids containing waste solids) that is discharged from domestic residences, commercial properties, institutional facilities and industrial processes.

Vapour intrusion (VI) is about an exposure pathway and the volatilization of contaminants in soil and groundwater that migrate to indoor air. VI exposes occupants of buildings to potentially harmful contaminant vapours arising from exposure to volatile and semi-volatile contaminants.

Soil movement is big business in Ontario, involving perhaps 170 million tonnes/ year, and adding about 15% to infrastructure costs. Last year’s changes to O. Reg. 153/04 have made soil movement more difficult and expensive than ever, and further cost increases are expected.

Environmental Compliance Approvals, under section 9 of the Environmental Protection Act, now incorporate noise and vibration as integral elements of all air emission applications and approvals.

Not all test results are created equally. Different legal regimes and technical protocols deal with testing water quality in lake, river, surface and ground waters.

The economic challenges faced by some of the natural resources and related sectors in recent years, including in the mining and pulp and paper industries, have precipitated new and wide-reaching responses from environmental regulators.

It's 5 o'clock and you get a call from a client saying their tanker truck just rolled over. Fuel is spilling into a creek, the nearby residents are being evacuated and the 401 is closed both ways...