Rodney Northey

Practice Areas

Rod Northey MA, LLM, is a partner in the Toronto office of Gowling WLG and past head of the firm’s Environmental Law Practice Group.

Rod’s practice focuses on regulatory approvals and strategies across the full range of approval regimes involving the environment - including environmental assessment, land use, endangered species, cultural heritage, energy, resource extraction, transportation, waste management, and water approvals.

As a litigator, Rod has been involved in dozens of tribunal and court appeals, including more than 50 reported environmental law decisions.

The federal and Ontario governments have each appointed Rod to recent expert panels on environmental assessment. Rod has also assisted municipalities and First Nations with drafting innovative laws and bylaws.

Rod is an adjunct faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School's Energy and Infrastructure Law LLM program for its course on environmental protection.

He has also been recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Environment, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, The Best Lawyers™ in Canada and the Legal 500 Canada.

Career

Certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Environmental Law

Year of Call: 1990 - Ontario

Publications

Author of five books on federal environmental assessment, including A Guide to Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (LexisNexis Canada).