Environmental Regulation

Lawyers at Cohen Highley provide comprehensive, strategic legal advice and representation regarding a wide range of environmental issues.

Services

We can help you:

• Understand the myriad of government regulations that affect your business and help you avoid prosecutions for non-compliance with environmental protection legislation;
• Identify and obtain required regulatory approvals for your operation;
• Adopt due diligence strategies to reduce the risk of corporate and personal environmental liability;
• Review, draft and implement environmental policies and environmental management systems to improve efficiency and minimize the risk of environmental liability;
• Prevent and manage emergency spills;
• Identify, recommend and instruct capable and experienced consultants;
• Review and draft environmental terms for the purchase and sale of land and business transactions;
• Decommission contaminated land;
• Participate in regulatory hearings;
• Defend against environmental prosecutions;
• Litigate and defend environmental lawsuits;
• Appeal regulatory orders, decisions and judgments;
• Negotiate terms and conditions of regulatory orders; and
• Satisfy environmental assessment requirements.

Whatever your Environmental Regulation issue, we're here to provide you with quality service, expert advice, and world-class representation.

Experience

Cohen Highley’s Environmental Law Group has been providing legal representation and advice to municipalities, private industry, landlords, First Nation communities, individuals, stakeholders and lawyers on a wide variety of environmental issues for over 20 years. Lawyers at Cohen Highley have appeared before the Divisional and Federal Courts and various administrative tribunals, including the Environmental Review Tribunal, and recently were counsel at the Walkerton Water Inquiry. Our lawyers are members of the Canadian Bar Association – Environmental Law Section, the American Trial Lawyers' Association, and the Centre for Health, Environment & Safety (CHES) and have given numerous presentations regarding environmental protection legislation and due diligence.

Contact Us

Should you wish to speak to a lawyer about an environmental issue, please contact either Paul Vogel by e-mail or by phone at (519) 672-9330. If corresponding by e-mail, be sure to include your name, your telephone number and a brief message.