Environment
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 3
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+1 416 366 8381About
Provided by Fasken
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.
Chambers Review
Fasken is a respected law firm with a solid environmental department. The team represents businesses from the energy, mining and transportation sectors, offering substantial expertise across contaminated site management, environmental assessment and risk management, and regulatory compliance in the context of major power projects. It has additional expertise in climate change and carbon trading matters, as well as fisheries and habitat issues. The law firm is also experienced in environmental dispute resolution, both in defending clients againstenvironmental charges and in resolving disputes through arbitration and mediation.
Work Highlights
- Fasken advised Fleet Brake on the environmental aspects of the share sale to Parts for Trucks, including negotiations surrounding future environmental assessments and associated liabilities.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fasken stand out for their profound understanding of complex environmental regulations and their proactive approach to problem solving."
"The Fasken team has invested time in understanding the intricacies of our business, allowing it to quickly jump into matters as they arise."
"Fasken consistently responds to my matters in a timely manner and ensures cases are appropriately staffed to be able to maintain high service levels."
"Fasken has a very strong team that is available and creative."
"Fasken can manage both the litigation aspect and the regulatory piece, which are often intertwined in environmental matters."
"Fasken stand out for their profound understanding of complex environmental regulations and their proactive approach to problem solving."
"The Fasken team has invested time in understanding the intricacies of our business, allowing it to quickly jump into matters as they arise."
"Fasken consistently responds to my matters in a timely manner and ensures cases are appropriately staffed to be able to maintain high service levels."
"Fasken has a very strong team that is available and creative."
"Fasken can manage both the litigation aspect and the regulatory piece, which are often intertwined in environmental matters."
Notable Practitioners
Rosalind Cooper offers substantial experience in environmental matters out of the law firm's Toronto office, with a particular focuson environmental impact assessments and contaminated land litigation.
"Rosalind Cooper is a true expert in environmental matters."
"Rosalind Cooper is excellent and very knowledgeable."
Kinji Bourchier operates out of the law firm's Vancouver office, acting on litigation and advisory mandates concerning contaminated land, brownfield development and waste management sites.
"Kinji Bourchier provides consistently strong advice and draws on his experience and knowledge to approach matters in creative and effective ways."
"His knowledge of our business is impressive and allows him to quickly jump into matters."
Montréal-basedPierre-Olivier Charleboisacts across both contentious and commercial mandates in the environmental law space. As leader of Fasken's corporate social responsibility team, he is particularly well versed in matters relating to the carbon market, including carbon offsets.
"Pierre-Olivier Charlebois demonstrates a profound understanding of legal intricacies and has an exceptional ability to translate complex legal jargon into accessible information."
"Pierre-Olivier Charlebois upholds the principles of professionalism, responsiveness and the delivery of exemplary legal services."
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