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Party status granted to three requestors and issues list revised at Case Management Conference.
The Ontario Land Tribunal held a Case Management Conference regarding an appeal of a Director's Order issued under the Environmental Protection Act.
The Tribunal granted party status to the City of Guelph, the Florence Lane Residents Group, and Electrolux Home Care Products Canada Inc., finding their participation necessary to effectively adjudicate the issues.
The Tribunal also directed the parties to revise two issues on the draft Issues List to ensure they are framed in a neutral context.
A further Case Management Conference and a nine-day merit hearing were scheduled.
Judicial review dismissed; corporate director reasonably held personally liable for environmental plugging order despite bankruptcy.
The applicant sought judicial review of a Minister's Designee decision upholding a plugging order that required him to plug 11 inactive oil and gas wells.
The applicant argued he was not an 'operator' under the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Act, that the corporate veil should not have been pierced, and that the regulatory obligations were extinguished by bankruptcy proceedings.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, finding it was reasonable for the Designee to conclude the applicant had management and control of the wells, to pierce the corporate veil to enforce environmental remediation, and to determine the non-monetary regulatory order was not a provable claim in bankruptcy.
