Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2018

Years ago, when I discovered the threat of climate change and the opportunities presented by solar photovoltaic energy, I thought this was pretty straightforward. Humankind just had to stop using coal and natural gas and replace them by solar PV. How foolish and naive one can be at age 20? Since that fateful English class in April 2004, a lot has changed and I have spent thousands of hours reading and writing about climate change.

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Law of the Lands

MAY 24, 2018

"Good fences do not always make good neighbours." I wonder how many court decisions begin with that line or something like it - it seems like it must be a lot. Madam Justice Gomery of the Ontario Superior Court opens her reasons with that line in a recent case involving a claim for a prescriptive easement in Ottawa. Neighbours were in court disputing the space between their houses, each built sometime prior to 1928.

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Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2018

By Michael Burger. Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. Tomorrow, Thursday, May 24, Judge William H. Alsup in the federal district court in San Francisco will hear oral argument on motions to dismiss filed in City of Oakland v. BP P.L.C. , a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 21, 2018

The United States Supreme Court ruled today that contracts requiring individualized arbitration of employment-related disputes are enforceable and do not violate Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Background Some employers require their employees to enter into agreements binding the parties to arbitrate employment-related disputes.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2018

A lot of news and noise surround electric cars but another vehicle is also benefitting largely from elecrification: buses. Running not for just a little bit in the morning and in the evening, they run all day, and sometimes, even part of the night. Tranporting not just one or two people to work at a time, they can transport dozens. This is why switching 5,000 buses to full electric has the impact of switching 100,000 cars.

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Law of the Lands

MAY 30, 2018

A Superior Court case heard in April, 2018 involved rural neighbours and the unauthorized removal of trees. Neighbour O sold trees on his property to the owner of a local sawmill, T. T apparently had a permit to remove the trees from Neighbour O's property, and took the timber that he had purchased. T did not, however, have a permit to remove trees from Neighbour M's property, and neither Neighbour O nor Sawyer T had permission from Neighbour M to take down any trees at all on her property.

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