Over 30 years of experience in all sectors of environmental law

Services

  • Characterization, design, and implementation of contaminated sites remediation
  • Publication in the land registry of notices of contamination, decontamination and use restrictions
  • Redevelopment of brownfields
  • Sale of businesses and contaminated assets
  • Cessation and change of use
  • Environmental assessments and permits
  • Management and treatment of water
  • Monitoring and modelling of air emissions
  • Management of residual materials
  • Decommissioning and restauration
  • Facility upgrades
  • Monitoring and management of effluents, air emissions and noise
  • Management of residual materials
  • Environmental permits
  • Community relations
  • Industrial water use permits
  • Quality and treatment of effluents
  • Declarations and duties
  • Immediate notices to governmental authorities
  • Emergency interventions
  • Relations with governmental authorities and communities
  • Remediation
  • Notice to governmental authorities
  • Characterization and remediation obligations
  • Environmental due diligence
  • Negotiation and contract drafting
  • Transfer of permits
  • Environmental indemnities
  • Provincial cap and trade system
  • Transfer of compensation credits
  • Protection of species, habitats, wetlands and watercourses
  • Development constraints
  • Environmental permits
  • Compensations
  • Extended responsibility of producers
  • Consignment and compensations
  • Reclamation and elimination
  • Import and export
  • Relations with governmental authorities
  • Training of employees, directors and officers
  • Response to governmental actions

Our team

Anne-Marie Sheahan

Partner

Ms. Sheahan is the senior partner of Sheahan LLP.

For more than 30 years, she has advised on compliance with environmental laws, enforcement, environmental emergencies, impact assessment, permitting for new projects as well remediation of contaminated land. She coordinates environmental due diligence verifications for all types of transactions.

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Mariko Maya Khan

Partner

Ms. Khan is a partner of the firm. She drafts environmental contracts and carries out environmental due diligence verifications. She advises clients in the context of large industrial and commercial developments. She represents clients in the contestation of monetary administrative penalties and provides advice in civil, administrative and penal litigations.

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Lauren Port

Associate

Ms. Port is an associate of the firm. She provides advice on compliance with environmental laws, in relation to noise, protection of vulnerable species and their habitat as well as use of water.

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Samantha Backman

Associate

Ms. Backman is an associate of the firm. She assists clients of many industrial sectors in matters involving compliance with environmental legislation at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, such as impacted groundwater management, mining restoration as well as reuse, disposal, and traceability of contaminated soils. She identifies required environmental permits and assists in obtaining those permits or their transfer.

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Annie Robert

Office Administrator/Paralegal

Massilva Saïghi

Assistant

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