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Mining companies in Canada are already contending with difficult capital markets. The federal government has not made the task of exploration and development any easier.

On January 21, 2013, Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment (MOE) posted the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Ontario: A Discussion Paper (the Discussion Paper) on the Environmental Registry, in conjunction with a consultation period open until April 21, 2013.

Earlier this year, the Minister of Energy introduced Bill 75, the Ontario Electricity System Operator Act, 2012.

On November 1, 2012, a new set of rules under the Ontario Mining Act went into effect which brought key changes to bear on the conduct of mining exploration activities in Ontario.

The decision by the Environmental Review Tribunal in Erickson v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment) was the first decision addressing an appeal from the issuance of a Renewable Energy Approval.

The WTO is wrapping up its deliberations on Japan’s complaint about the local content requirements in the Feed in Tariff rules, spawned through Ontario’s Green Energy Act, 2009.

New SEC Rules require enhanced disclosure of government payments by resource extraction issuers and use of conflict minerals

On January 3, 2012, Ontario Superior Court Justice Carole Brown J. granted an injunction to the Wahgoshig First Nation restraining a junior minor from engaging in all mining exploration activities for 120 days on Treaty 9 lands.

This case involved the interpretation of an option agreement. Murphy, a mineral prospector, granted Crosshair Exploration and Mining Corp. an option to acquire a 90% interest in certain mineral licences which granted the right to explore lands in Labrador.

Kashechewan, the isolated Cree community on the Albany River in northern Ontario, is named for the place “where the water flows fast.”