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We assist clients with regulatory advice, environmental permitting, representation in litigation and regulatory proceedings, protection and compliance, and advising on contamination and remediation.
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Overview

Fasken provides clients with a comprehensive set of environmental legal services. Whether you are permitting a new project, dealing with a contaminated site, defending charges, challenging orders, litigating on environmental matters, or trading carbon, we can provide practical legal advice, representation and solutions.

We assist clients in dealing with contaminated lands, assisting with remediation, strategies to avoid liability, and litigating over associated liability. 

 

We defend charges laid by regulators and have excellent relationships with the regulators to negotiate resolutions and the strong advocacy skills to successfully challenge those charges.

 

We help throughout the project approval process, organizing stakeholder consultation hearings and meetings and providing strategic advice. Once the project is launched, we can advise on scalable risk management and sustainability management plans that safeguard your investment.

 

Our clients include energy, mining, real estate, insurers, financial institutions, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture/aquaculture corporations. We also work with governments and industry associations interested in launching policy initiatives and program reviews.

 

Fasken has one of the oldest environmental law practices in Canada. We first published the Canadian Environmental Law Guide in 1996 and continue to update it quarterly. One of our lawyers is one of the distinguished members of the Canadian Centre for Environmental Arbitration and Mediation, which helps governments and businesses resolve a wide-range of disputes.

 

Exposure to environmental liability is wide-reaching.  Successfully navigate this liability with the right advice from our professionals.

Areas of Expertise

  • Contaminated Sites, The lawyers at Fasken help clients understand, manage and minimize potential risks and liabilities associated with contamination.
  • Environmental Assessment & Permitting, We navigate clients through permitting requirements and processes, deftly anticipating issues and advocating interests at every turn.
  • Waste Management Regulation, Fasken helps clients throughout the value chain identify opportunities to enhance efficiency and manage risks in waste management.

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Team

Primary Contacts
  • Rosalind H. Cooper, Partner, Toronto, ON, +1 416 865 5127, rcooper@fasken.com
  • Pierre-Olivier Charlebois, Partner | CO-LEADER, ENERGY AND CLIMATE, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 5291, pcharlebois@fasken.com
  • Ron Ezekiel, Partner | Co-leader, Energy and Climate, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4708, rezekiel@fasken.com
  • Paul C. Wilson, Counsel, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4748, pwilson@fasken.com
  • Allison Sears, Partner, Calgary, AB, +1 587 233 4106, asears@fasken.com
  • Francois Joubert, Partner, Johannesburg, +27 11 586 6089, fjoubert@fasken.com

Client Work

  • Cascadia Seaweed raises C$4 million in funding round, [Deal - Cascadia Seaweed Corp.], Canadian venture capital funding for Cascadia Seaweed
  • Castle Harlan acquires Alumni Educational Solutions, [Deal - Castle Harlan Inc.], Global private equity investment firm’s acquisition of leading educational furniture manufacturer.
  • Miura acquires Cleaver-Brooks, [Deal - Miura Co., Ltd.], Private M&A deal
  • Sale of Gelpac to ProAmpac, [Deal - Gelpac Inc.], Sale of Gelpac to ProAmpac.
  • Northvolt Batteries North America succeeded in having an application for an interim injunction dismissed, allowing it to carry out preparatory work on the site of its future manufacturing plant for electric vehicle battery cells, [Case - Northvolt Batteries North America Inc.], Dismissal of an application for an interim injunction.
  • Blue Wolf Capital Partners completed the acquisition of LOGISTEC Corporation, [Deal - LOGISTEC Corporation], Acquisition of LOGISTEC Corporation by Blue Wolf Capital Partners.
  • Allkem and Livent combine in an all-stock merger of equals to create a leading global integrated lithium chemicals producer valued at US$10.6 billion, [Deal - Allkem Ltd.], Allkem and Livent combine in an all-stock merger of equals.
  • Renegotiation of Québec water power and public land leases entered into between a major provincial renewable energy producer that owns several power plants and the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie, [Deal - Confidential Client], Renegotiation of leases for water power and public land bordering several rivers in Québec with the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie.
  • SCR-Sibelco NV announces strategic joint venture with Avalon Advanced Materials Inc., [Deal - SCR-Sibelco NV], Belgian based global material solution company completes a joint venture agreement to develop Ontario lithium mining operations.

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