Pollution Probe's anti-greenhouse gas hearings
Global warming increases forest fires.
Klippensteins has helped reduce Ontario's climate-changing CO2
emissions by 21 million tonnes
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Klippensteins has represented Pollution Probe at more than a
dozen major regulatory hearings at the Ontario Energy Board and over
the years has used economic and environmental expert evidence and
representations to successfully push for aggressive anti-greenhouse gas
measures in Ontario's natural gas sector. As a result of the work of
Pollution Probe and its expert Jack Gibbons (and one other
environmental intervenor), the Energy Board has required the province's
natural gas utilities to implement major Demand Side Management (DSM)
programmes which are reducing Ontario's carbon dioxide greenhouse gas
emissions by more than 21 million tonnes (46 billion pounds).
Preserving a park at municipal council
Parklands preserved by municipal councillor with help of Klippensteins
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A public spirited environmental activist was elected to the
Municipal Council of a major Ontario city on a platform of saving
certain important park lands from imminent development. After a year of
behind the scenes work, as the crucial Council vote approached, a
developer who wanted to build on the park lands escalated serious
conflict of interest accusations against the Councillor, apparently
intending to intimidate the Councillor and defeat the park plan. We
provided, on a pro bono basis, strategical advice and legal opinions
countering the allegations, helping the Councillor to successfully
preserve the park as a natural legacy for generations.