Canada’s highest court to rule on case that puts municipalities’ power to preserve nature on the line
A Halifax-based case now before the Supreme Court of Canada could have dire implications for the power of municipalities to protect land from development.
The legal battle pits a developer seeking to build a suburb on a parcel of privately owned land against the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), explains Randy Christensen, Randy Christensen, an environmental lawyer with Ecojustice, an environmental law charity which intervened on its own behalf in the case.
Canada’s highest court to rule on case that puts municipalities’ power to preserve nature on the line
A Halifax-based case now before the Supreme Court of Canada could have dire implications for the power of municipalities to protect land from development.
The legal battle pits a developer seeking to build a suburb on a parcel of privately owned land against the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), explains Randy Christensen, Randy Christensen, an environmental lawyer with Ecojustice, an environmental law charity which intervened on its own behalf in the case.
Canada’s highest court to rule on case that puts municipalities’ power to preserve nature on the line