Summary of Meetings: Natural Resources Law
Number of Meetings Held:2
March 02, 2022
Registration Count: 42
Guest Speaker: Kevin O’Callaghan, senior environmental, resource, and Indigenous law litigator at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Meeting Title/Topic: Old-Growth Logging, Injunctions, and the Fairy Creek Saga
Synopsis: Discussion on old-growth logging and injunctions, with a focus on the recent BC Supreme Court decisions regarding an injunction impacting protesters of old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed of British Columbia.
May 18, 2022
Registration Count: 11
Guest Speaker: Patricio Cumming of PAIG Impact and Vasilis Pappas of Bennett Jones LLP
Meeting Title/Topic: Resource Nationalism
Synopsis: Updates on some of the policy and legal decisions in these countries that may impact Canadian based mining companies. Included an interactive discussion about steps those companies can take to protect themselves.