The Legal Issues feature provides relevant news, information, legislation and regulatory compliance resources to guide users through the legal issues faced in the Canadian environmental, remediation and brownfield redevelopment industry. 

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Miller Thomson LLP is one of Canada’s largest national law firms, with more than 500 professionals working from Toronto, Vancouver, Whitehorse, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Markham and Montreal. The firm provides a complete range of business law, advocacy and personal legal services to Canadian and international corporations, entrepreneurs, institutions, governments and not-for-profit organizations.

The firm's practice is organized into industry and functional groups that facilitate a multidisciplinary team approach to providing business-oriented solutions, including brownfield and site remediation services.

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Practice & Industry Areas include:

CleanTech

The CleanTech Group offers a diverse range of products, services and processes designed to provide superior performance at lower cost and lessened environmental impact through more productive and responsible use of natural resources. Service areas include:

• Energy
• Regulatory and Environmental Law
• Technology/IP
• Corporate Finance and Securities
• Project Finance
• Private Equity
• M&A
• Corporate/Commercial
• Tax
• Employment
• Litigation

  The prime objective of the team is to provide ready access to integrated legal advice and a uniform level of support to our clients whether they are manufacturers at the early stage of developing a concept or process, developers entering into project planning, parties providing necessary capital or service providers supplying expertise.

Environmental Law

The Environmental Law Group consists of legal planners, negotiators and advocates. Many have experience as professional engineers, regulators, prosecutors and policy makers. Practice areas include:

• 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
  

  The Environmental Law Group is able to offer cost-effective and timely legal advice, due its size, expertise and the relationships with a wide variety of environmental consultants.

Construction Law

The Construction Law Group is a leading provider of construction related advice and advocacy across Canada. Provides comprehensive advice on all aspects of the project including recommendations on the project delivery system best suited to our clients’ needs and objectives.

• Tendering
• Contracts
• Project Financing
• Contract Security
• Dispute Resolution
• Claims Avoidance and Management
• Construction Liens
• Negligence Claims
• Construction Litigation
• Health Industry Infrastructure

  Clients include owners, general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, developers, material suppliers, insurers and surety companies.

Mining, Oil & Gas

The Mining Group advises mining companies, investment dealers and financial institutions on a wide variety of domestic and international transactions involving precious and base metals, diamonds and industrial minerals. Related areas include:

• Regulatory Compliance and Advice, including Advice on National Instrument 43-101
• Environmental Issues, including Permitting, Compliance and Offences
  

The Oil and Gas Group provides the complete spectrum of services required. Related areas include:

• Environmental (Due Diligence Review; Permits and Approvals; Environmental Compliance and Management; Incident Reporting and Compliance; Remediation; Defence of Environmental Prosecutions; Litigation; Legislative and Regulatory Review)

For a full list of Practice & Industry Areas within Miller Thomson click here.

For up-to-date information and environmental issues across Canada, Miller Thomson LLP, provides its readers an electronic newsletter, EnviroNotes!.