Albert M. Engel

First Year of Call
2002

Areas of Practice
Civil Litigation, Environmental Law, Municipal Law

Description
Albert is certified by the LSO as a Specialist in Environmental Law. He provides clients with legal and strategic advice on environmental and renewable energy law matters.

He has a Masters in Environmental Studies and joined Foglers in 2010 after 10 years with the Legal Services Branch of Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (“MOECC”). He assists clients with renewable energy project issues and has represented approval holders in numerous renewable energy approval (REA) hearings, including Ontario’s first (Erickson v. Ontario (Ministry ofthe Environment) [2011] OERTDNo. 29; 61 CELR (3d) 1). He also assists clients with environmental and related aspects of transactions and various types of agreements, due diligence, securing necessary regulatory approvals, defences to environmental prosecutions, appeals of environmental orders and approvals, civil litigation involving environmental and related issues, contaminated lands and brownfields redevelopment. He appears before Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal (“ERT”), the Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Municipal Board, the Fire Safety Commission, and all levels of court including Provincial Offences Court.

Albert is recognized by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada and as a repeatedly recommended lawyer in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in the area of Environmental Law.