Red Deer Mobile Lawyer - We offer comprehensive services in environmental law services, providing efficient and quick assistance to our clients. Amongst the areas which we cover comprise transactional work, civil and regulatory disputes and environmental compliance.
In each of our local offices we have a group of environmental law practitioners who are completely skilled in a diverse range of practice orientations, like for example Fisheries Act issues and forestry matters, municipal law, energy regulation, land expropriation, and insurance litigation. We are knowledgeable in the commercial applications of Environmental Law and can assist with the environmental aspects of re-organizations, financing and acquisitions.
Environmental Compliance
For our several public and private sector clients, we often help them with environmental management systems development, remediation projects completion and compliance review. Our skill consists of the following: regulation of air and water emissions, remediation of complex groundwater and soil contamination, approval of engineered methods, and transport or import/export of regulated substances.
Transactions
Our lawyers are skilled in transactions, in addition to representing our clients in divestiture, financing and acquisition negotiations. We are also able to assist with real estate transactions consisting of re-development, leasing, and financings, as well as brownfields acquisitions. managing and structuring comprehensive environmental due diligence exercises on a national basis needs a high level of skill and knowledge. Our skill in this field assists our clients formulate realistic and innovative business solutions to environmental problems.
Litigation
We are leaders in disputes arising from pollution incidents that result in personal injury and property damage. We help in resolving forestry matters, insurance claims, class action suits, environmental protests, and court proceedings concerning contaminated site clean-ups.
Insurance Coverage
In situations where insurance coverage matters are triggered by major environmental claims, we act as counsel; for example, we have offered coverage opinions arising out of contamination associated to landfill sites, large industrial facilities, major flooding events, asbestos claims, industrial explosions, and various significant incidents with adverse impacts on the environment.
Project Approvals
In projects requiring environmental approvals under provincial and federal environmental assessment legislation, our practitioners advise and act for proponents. Our work comprises the representation of clients in relation to electric transmission lines, petrochemical plants, thermal and hydro electric generating stations (including combined cycle and cogeneration plants), upstream oil and gas facilities (consisting of gathering pipelines, exploratory and production wells, gas plants, and oil batteries), oil sands development, natural gas pipeline facilities, and oil, high vapour pressure natural gas liquid facilities. We even offer services for parties affected by these types of projects.
Our skilled teams of lawyers cover a broad range of resource development and energy-associated applications and proceedings representing gas and oil businesses, provincially and federally regulated pipeline companies, petrochemical manufacturers, privately owned and government water, natural gas and electric utilities. We also work extensively along with First Nations on project approvals.
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