CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF RESOURCES LAW - Occasional Papers and Resources articles

(www.cirl.ca/publications) 

Wenig, Michael M., Assessing Where Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stand in Alberta Policy and Government Organization - Occasional Paper #37 (Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 2011). 

Wenig, Michael M., Understanding Local Albertans' Roles in Watershed Planning - Will the Real Blueprint Please Step Forward? - Occasional Paper #28 (CIRL, 2010). 

Wenig, Michael M., Looking Through Cloudy Waters - A Historical Analysis of the Legislative Declarations of Crown Water Rights in Alberta - Occasional Paper #27 (CIRL, 2010). 

Wenig, Michael M. and Jennette Poschwatta, Developing a “Comprehensive Energy Strategy” with a Capital “C” – Occasional Paper #22 (CIRL, 2008). 

Wenig, Michael M. and Michal C. Moore, “Searching for Meaning in Energy Resource ‘Conservation’” (2007) 99 Resources (CIRL) 1.    

Wenig, Michael M. and Michal C. Moore, Is “Conservation” Worth Conserving? The Implications of Alberta’s “Energy Resource Conservation” Mandate for Renewable Energy – Occasional Paper #20 (CIRL, 2007). 

Kennett, Steven A., and Wenig, Michael M., “Alberta’s Oil and Gas Boom Fuels Land-use Conflicts – But Should the EUB be Taking the Heat?” (Summer 2005) 91 Resources (CIRL) 1. 

Wenig, Michael M. and Patricia Sutherland, “Considering the Upstream/Downstream Effects of the Mackenzie Pipeline: Rough Paddling for the National Energy Board” (2004) 86 Resources (CIRL) 1.    

Wenig, Michael M., “Valuing Energy Resources: Reflections on the EUB’s Decision in the Surmont ‘Gas Over Bitumen’ Controversy” (Fall, 2002), 80 Resources (CIRL) 1.    

Conference Proceedings

Wenig, Michael M., Arlene Kwasniak, and Michael S. Quinn,  “Water Under the Bridge?  The Role of IFN Determinations in Alberta’s River Management”  and  “Water Under the Bridge? The Role of IFNs in Federal and Inter-Jurisdictional Management of Alberta’s Rivers,”  in H. Epp, ed., Water: Science & Politics.  Proceedings of the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists, Annual Conference and Workshop, 25-28 March 2006, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (online: www.cirl.ca/publications/external-publications). 

Wenig, Michael M., “Integrating Protected Area Strategies and Minerals Management – A Comparison of Four Canadian Strategies,” in Neil W.P. Munro, et al., eds., Making Ecosystem Based Management Work: Connecting Managers and Researchers  – Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas – May 11-16, 2003, Victoria, B.C. (Wolfville, N.S.: SAMPAA, 2004).    

Wenig, Michael M. and Quinn, Dr. Michael S., “Integrating the Alberta Oil and Gas Tenure Regime with Landscape Objectives: One Step Toward Managing Cumulative Effects,” in H. Epp, ed., Access Management: Policy to Practice.  Proceedings of the Conference Presented by the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists in Calgary – March 18-19, 2003 (Edmonton: ASPB, 2004).   

Book chapters

Saunders, J. Owen, and Wenig, Michael M., “Canadian Water Management and the Challenges of Jurisdictional Fragmentation,” in Bakker, Karen, ed., Eau Canada – The Future of Canada’s Water (UBC Press, 2006). 

Bankes, Nigel, and Wenig, Michael M., “Northern Gas Pipeline Policy and Sustainable Development, Then. And Now?” in Doern, G. Bruce, ed., Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2005).  

Wenig, Michael M., “Federal Policy and Alberta’s Oil and Gas: The Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation,” in G. Bruce Doern, ed., How Ottawa Spends 2004--2005: Mandate Change in the Martin Era (McGill-Queens Press, 2004).     

Law Review articles 

Wenig, Michael M., “How 'Total' Are 'Total Maximum Daily Loads'?Legal Issues Regarding the Scope of WatershedBased Pollution Control under the Clean Water Act” (Winter, 1998) 12 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 87.   

Wenig, Michael M., “Making Sense of Growth and Sustainable Development: Several Responses to Herman Daly’s Latest Book” (1998) 28 Environmental Law 235.  

Wenig, Michael M., “Note: Strict Liability under Section 311 of the Clean Water Act: Cleaning Up Respondeat Superior and Negligence” (1985) 10 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 149. 

Reports (non-journal, publicly available papers)

Wenig, Michael M. and Ross, Dr. William A., Jepp, J.P., and Panton, Richard, Legal and Policy Frameworks for Renewable Energy in Alberta (Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, 2007). 

Wenig, Michael M. and O’Reilly, Kevin, The Mining Reclamation Regime in the Northwest Territories: A Comparison with Selected Canadian and U.S. Jurisdictions, prepared for the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Jan., 2005).   

Wenig, Michael M. and Kennett, Steven A., The Legal and Policy Framework for Managing Public Access to Oil and Gas Corridors in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, prepared for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (May, 2004). 

Miscellaneous papers (self-published from the blogs page on this website)

Wenig, Michael M., How Land Use Issues Factor into AUC Reviews of Renewable Energy Power Plants (Nov. 23, 2023), linked in a December 1, 2023 post in ABlawg.ca, online: https://ablawg.ca/2023/12/01/how-land-use-issues-factor-into-alberta-utilities-commission-reviews-of-renewable-energy-power-plants/.  

Wenig, Michael M., Annotations of NRCB Board Member Decisions Under AOPA (last update Jan. 14, 2023), linked in a Jan. 30, 2023 post in ABlawg.ca, online: https://ablawg.ca/2023/01/30/annotations-of-nrcb-review-decisions-under-the-agricultural-operations-practices-act/.  

Wenig, Michael M., Closing the Door on Transparency and Accountability: the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Ex Parte Reviews of Public Bodies’ Requests for Extensions under FOIP (Nov. 24, 2021).

Columns and articles for LawNow Magazine 

(www.lawnow.org) 

“Bringing Life to ‘Life Cycle Assessments’” (May/June 2007) LawNow 44-46 (co-authored with Dr. William A. Ross). 

 “Making Progress Toward a Truly Integrated Energy Policy” (March/April 2007) LawNow 43-44 (co-authored with Dr. William A. Ross).   

“Ideological Rhetoric Doesn’t Help” (Jan./Feb. 2007) LawNow 43-44. 

“Off Course in Managing Transboundary Rivers” (Sept./Oct. 2006) LawNow 40-41 (co-authored with Michael S. Quinn). 

 “The ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Watershed Protection” (April/May 2006) LawNow 40-41. 

 “Can Environmental Law Really Help? An Update from the Trenches” (Feb./March 2006) Law Now 41-42.  

 “Who’s Minding the Water in Southern Alberta” (Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006) LawNow 47. 

 “Making sense of new terms” (Oct./Nov. 2005) LawNow 40-41. 

 “Unsteady Ground – Recreational Access on Alberta’s Grazing Lease Land” (Aug./Sept. 2005) LawNow 29.    

 “What’s Smart about Ignoring Cumulative Environmental Effects?” (Apr./May 2005) LawNow 43-44. 

 “Parliament Speaks: Wildlife has Intrinsic Value” (Feb./March 2005) LawNow 43-44.  

 “Strange Bedfellows for an Anti-Smog Campaign” (Oct./Nov. 2004) LawNow 44. 

 “The Democracy Deficit in Canadian Environmental Policy Making” (Aug./Sept. 2004) LawNow 39.   

 “Thinking like a Watershed” (June/July 2004) LawNow 6.    

 “Justice La Forest’s Mark on Environmental Federalism” (April/May 2004) LawNow 46.   

 “Should the Polluter Pay?” (Feb./March 2004) LawNow 44. 

 “Who Really Owns Alberta’s Natural Resources?” (Dec. 2003/Jan. 2004) LawNow 39.   

 “Facing Up to the Roots of Environmental Disputes” (Oct./Nov. 2003) LawNow 44. 

 “Precautionary Principle Gains a Judicial Foothold” (Aug./Sept. 2003) LawNow 39. 

 “Water for Oil – How much of a tradeoff makes sense?” (June/July 2003) LawNow 39. 

 “Assessing International Judges’ Call to Arms for Environmental Protection,” (April/May 2003) LawNow 46.   

 “Who Should decide?” (Feb./March 2003) 27 LawNow 37 (co-authored with Nigel Bankes)  [re draft provincial legislation for reducing greenhouse gases]. 

 “What is the value of Alberta’s vast fossil fuel resources?” (Dec./Jan. 2002/2003) 27 LawNow 37.    

 “Cumulative Effects: Oil, Gas, and Biodiversity” (Oct./Nov. 2002) 27 LawNow 27.