Janet Bobechko
Partner
Upcoming Event
Mar252021
Digging In: Three Months Later… Ontario’s New Regulation for Excess Soil (Part 2)
On January 1, 2021, the On-Site and Excess Soil Management Regulation 406/19 passed by the Province of Ontario under the Environmental Protection Act will come into force…View Event
Speaking Engagements
Panelist, "Digging In: Three Months Later… Ontario’s New Regulation for Excess Soil (Part 2)", WeirFoulds LLP, Online, March 25, 2021
Chair and Speaker, "Ontario’s New Excess Soil Regulation: What You Need to Know ", CANECT, Online, February 25, 2021
Panelist, "Digging In: Ontario’s New Regulation for Excess Soil (Part 1)", WeirFoulds LLP, Online, January 14, 2021
Instructor, "Due Diligence Risk Assessment vs. Regulatory Risk Assessment: Which Do I Need?" Webinar, Pinchin Ltd., November, 2020
Speaker, “Climate Change and Infrastructure Resilience”, Roundtable Chair, ONEIA Business and Policy Forum, Toronto, ON, September 2020
Chair and Speaker, “Contaminated Sites and Emergency Response Management”, CANECT, Fall 2020
Chair and Speaker, “Brownfield, Contaminated Sites & Excess Soil” and “Spill Reporting and Emergency Response”, CANECT, November 2-4, 2020
Speaker, “Developments in Environmental Law for Real Estate Transactions”, Ontario Bar Association (OBA), Toronto, March 2020
Moderator, “Roundtable - Inclusive Workplace Design”, International Women in Mining, Toronto, March 2020
Moderator, 2019 Excess Soil Symposium, Canadian Urban Institute, Oshawa, December 2019
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Additional Publications and Media Mentions
- Contributor to “Landlord’s Rights and Remedies in a Commercial Lease: A Practical Guide”
- Regularly updates Falconbridge on Mortgages, Chapter 10, “Environmental issues Affecting the Mortgagee”
- “10 Tips To Manage Environmental Risk During Uncertain Times”, April 2020
- “Climate Change: Parties to M&A must be diligent”, January 2020
- “The Rapid Rise of Climate Change Disclosure Risks”, Chapter in Key Developments in Environmental Law 2019, Thomson Reuters, November 2019
- “Climate change related risks classified as a mainstream business issue by the CSA”, August 2019
- “Ontario conducts province-wide mining inspection blitz: employers take note”, August 2019
- “Weathering the climate-change storm with increased financial risk disclosure – Bank of Canada vulnerability assessment”, May 2019
- “Ontario government proposes changes to Endangered Species Act”, May 2019
- “Ontario proposing environmental assessment changes”, May 2019
- “Impact on Environmental Issues”, USMCA, November 2018
- “Bill C-68: amending the Fisheries Act to provide protection to fish and their habitat”, March 2018
- “Mainstream carbon markets”, February 2018
- “Canada unveils backstop carbon pricing details: the Green House Gas Pollution Pricing Act”, January 2018
- “Inspection and Maintenance Guide for Stormwater Management Ponds and Constructed Wetlands Toronto and Region Conservation Authority”, 2018
- “The difficult road to a green recovery“, National, CBA, October 2020
- “Environmental and industry implications for Ontario’s Bill 197”, ERIS Blog, August 2020
- “Celestica manages environmental risk during COVID”, Canadian Lawyer Magazine, April 2020
- “10 Tips to manage environmental risk during uncertain times”, ES&E Magazine, April 2020
- “An environment chapter with teeth”, National, CBA, February 2020
- “Climate related financial disclosure in spotlight”, Lawyer’s Daily, August 2019
- “Ontario government proposes changes to Endangered Species Act” Law Times, May 2019
- “Excess Soil Management“, NRU Publishing, December 2018
- “Trade agreement has new environmental rules“, Law Times, November 2018
- “Every Drop Counts“, Water Canada, (Report focusing on the connection between water and energy in Ontario’s municipal water and wastewater systems)
- “How CETA Will Impact the Water Sector”, Water Canada, January 2017