Ryan Sean Crosby McNamara

Ryan represents and advises clients on a wide range of environmental and Aboriginal law issues. He has experience addressing potential liability for environmental and regulatory offences, resolving ‎property contamination disputes, and obtaining environmental regulatory approvals for energy projects, industrial facilities, and linear infrastructure projects. He also routinely provides environmental law advice on transactions of varying sizes, including some of Canada's largest mergers and acquisitions.

Ryan's environmental practice extends to providing pragmatic advice to clients on how to effectively comply with a variety of environmental statutes and regulations. These include the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 , Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , provincial environmental protection statutes, and natural resource legislation. Ryan also regularly assists clients with navigating a variety of federal chemicals management regimes, including PFAS and plastics reporting, as well as provincial and territorial extended producer responsibility legislation.

Conducting environmental due diligence for purchasers and vendors of industrial, commercial and residential properties

Advising leading representation and warranty insurance providers as to the sufficiency of environmental due diligence performed by policy applicants to address regulatory and litigation risks

Providing guidance to clients on their reporting obligations in relation to environmental releases, including discovery of historical contamination, contaminant migration from neighbouring properties, and discharges into the air, water and land

Assisting clients with applications for new or amended environmental compliance approvals, renewable energy approvals and Aggregate Resources Act approvals