Practice Areas
Marc McAree’s mediation practice areas represent an extension of the law that Marc has practiced for more than 30 years. The practice areas fall into four main categories: Environment, Land Use Planning, Zoning and Development, Municipal, and Related Insurance. Across the four main practice areas are conflicts that often involve:
- private and/or government ownership of land
- private and/or government policy and operations
- private and/or government contracts
- associated science and engineering
and legal issues pertaining to each.
This is a non-exhaustive list of sub-topics across the four main practice areas:
- Agriculture
- Air Emissions
- Biodiversity
- Boundary Trees
- Brownfields
- Chemicals, Pesticides and Toxics
- Climate Change
- Contaminated Land and Clean Ups
- Contracts
- Discharges
- Emerging and Forever Contaminants: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
- Energy
- Environmental Approvals, Permits, Licences
- Excess Soil
- Expropriation
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- Fertilizers and Pesticides
- Freedom of Information
- Green Products and Greenwashing
- Hazardous Substances: Asbestos, Lead, Mould
- Insurance Coverage, Claims, and Subrogation
- Land Development
- Land Use Planning Approvals
- Municipal Government Services and Decisions
- Natural Resources
- Nuisances (Odour, Noise, Dust, Vibration, Light)
- On-Road and Off-Road Engine and Vehicle Emissions
- Professional Negligence, Breach of Contract, and Misrepresentations
- Property Boundaries
- Radon
- Renewable Energy
- Risk Assessment
- Species at Risk
- Spills
- Waste, Waste Management, Landfills, and Recycling
- Water, Wastewater, Watersheds: Quality, Supply, Discharges, Takings, and Diversions
- Wildlife.