Environmental
Our Group
Miller Thomson’s Environmental Law Group lawyers are legal planners, negotiators and advocates. Many have experience as professional engineers, regulators, prosecutors and policy makers.
Our Services
Serving a broad range of clients from many industries, we provide integrated expertise in all areas of environmental law including:
- Contaminated land/brownfield redevelopment
- Defence of environmental and related prosecutions
- Directors and Officers liability
- Emission control and abatement
- Environmental approvals
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental civil litigation
- Environmental compliance
- Environmental insurance
- Land acquisitions, development and sale
- Legislative drafting and interpretation
- Transactional environmental due diligence
- Waste management
- Water and sewage servicing
Our Experience
Our lawyers have cultivated a thorough knowledge of government processes and regulators and continue to maintain excellent relationships with existing personnel.
Because of the size and expertise of our group, and the relationships our lawyers have with a wide variety of environmental consultants, our partners delegate both internally and also outsource to consultants and paralegals, as needed, to maximize the client’s advantage. Thus, we are always able to offer cost-effective and timely legal advice.
Representative Work
- Acted as counsel to the municipality in the Walkerton Water Inquiry (including all the attendant regulatory, enforcement and remedial work)
- Advised municipalities regarding compliance with post-Walkerton legislative and regulatory initiatives
- Consulted counsel for the municipality in the North Battleford Water Inquiry
- Litigated a precedent setting contaminated site case in B.C. Supreme Court
- Appeared in the Court of Appeal for Ontario for a major oil company in its appeal of charges laid under the Environmental Protection Act
- Resolved significant environmental insurance claims
- Successful defence of companies and directors and officers in environmental prosecutions
- Advised on transactions involving contaminated land and negotiated agreements between land owners dealing with environmental contamination, brownfield redevelopment and brownfield funding
- Mediated a multi-party dispute with various levels of government involving urbanisation and contamination issues