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Article: The 'sleeping giant' of watershed protection.(environmental law)
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- LawNow
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Some environmental laws lie dormant for years or even decades, but are then awoken by creative lawyers looking for new ways to solve their private clients' environmental problems or to promote the causes of environmental non-profits. This column is about one such dormant law that, if awoken, might add a new, controversial front in the campaign to conserve Alberta's watersheds.
The law is part of section 54 of the Alberta Public Lands Act. That section generally prohibits various activities on or that adversely affect the province's public lands. The Act further provides that it is an "offence" to violate these prohibitions (s. 56(c)), punishable (in an ...