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Canadian mining associations and civil society organizations released recommendations for the development of a payment transparency standard for all publicly-traded mining companies in Canada on January 16, 2014.The group's recommendations provide the federal and provincial governments and securities commissions with a blueprint for a payment reporting framework. This framework will serve the needs of the data’s end-users, such as citizens, governments, investors and reporting companies.

Scientists are warning that “there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.” But Ontario's current approach to nuclear power does not display such attitude.

On May 9th, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Behn v. Moulton Contracting Ltd, 2013 SCC 26. The decision provides clarification on the Crown’s duty to consult but also leaves some important questions unanswered regarding Aboriginal and treaty rights.

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.