Environmental Regulatory Processes

Participating in Environmental Regulatory Processes

Whether acting for a regulatory body, individual, corporation, municipality or indigenous group involved in environmental regulatory processes, our goal remains ensuring that all participants have the means to participate fully and fairly. 

Meadows Law works collaboratively to support varied participants engaged in the environmental regulatory process at critical points along the way, including:

• Providing and responding to notice in a timely and appropriate way
• Establishing the nature and extent of participants’ rights involved in regulatory processes
• Identifying and securing funding to support participants in the retention of experts, consultants and legal counsel
• Establishing and implementing fair processes that support participants during negotiation, formal and informal mediations and hearing processes
• Supporting participants during reviews, appeals and court challenges to the outcomes of environmental regulatory processes

Significant Experience in Environment Regulatory Processes

For Teresa Meadows, Environmental Law has been her focus for over 25 years. She is among the very few Canadian practitioners that have focused in a field that is now indispensable to government, corporations, and Indigenous Peoples.

She has acted as outside counsel for both the Nunavut Impact Review Board and Nunavut Water Board, and has worked with a variety of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. A well-known speaker and instructor at the University of Alberta since 2000, she is also a contributing author to publications on environmental law in Alberta and climate change law and policy in Alberta. Teresa has taken part in over a hundred environmental hearings, and holds long-term working relationships with a variety of corporate clients - including Fortune 500 companies.