Tony Crossman Partner | Vancouver

• Advised major energy companies on environmental assessment and permitting for a major natural gas project and pipeline transmission

• Advised on environmental assessment and permitting of LNG development projects, and provided Indigenous consultation

• Advised an independent power producer on environmental permitting and compliance for a major renewable energy project (development and construction phases)

• Advised provincial government on environmental assessment and permitting for major infrastructure development projects (bridges, roads)

• Advised a range of corporations on environmental due diligence for property and business acquisitions, including industrial and manufacturing operations and marine terminals

• Advised a major energy utility and land owner on greenhouse gas emission compliance, reporting and carbon credits

• Advised major industrial operations on internal and external environmental compliance audits

• Advised developers, land owners and purchasers on managing environmental risks for brownfield development and contaminated sites; and negotiated terms for the acquisition and financing

• Provided environmental emergency advice to mining and energy companies

• Advised and managed environmental enforcement actions by regulators for mining, energy and transportation companies

• Represented clients in prosecuting and defending claims for clean-up costs associated with contaminated sites

Tony is recognized as a leading environmental lawyer in the following publications:

• The Legal 500 Canada – 2022–2025 (Environment)
  

• Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business – 2021–2025 (Environment)

• The Best Lawyers in Canada – 2023–2025 (Corporate Law, Environmental Law)

• Lexpert Special Edition: Energy and Mining 2024

• Lexology Index: Environment & Climate Change – 2023–2024 (Global Elite Thought Leader – Environment)

• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2022–2024: Most Frequently Recommended – Environmental Law; 2023–2024: Repeatedly Recommended – Energy (Oil & Gas); 2022, 2024: Repeatedly Recommended – Aboriginal Law; 2024: Repeatedly Recommended – Energy (Electricity); 2022: Consistently Recommended – Energy (Oil & Gas))

• Lexology Index: Thought Leaders 2023 (Global Elite – Environment)

• Lexpert Special Edition: Mining 2023

• The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2023 (Environmental Law)

• Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business – 2022–2023 (Environment)

• Lexology Index: Canada – 2021–2023 (Environment)

• Lexology Index: Environment 2021

Tony is an executive member and a past chair of the National Environment, Energy and Resources Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and its B.C. Environmental Law Section. He is also a member of the Brownfields Committee of the British Columbia Environment Industry Association.

Tony frequently writes for various publications on environmental matters. Some of his most notable works include Canadian Environmental Law (LexisNexis) (B.C. and Yukon chapters), The Law of Climate Change in Canada (B.C. chapter) and the environmental chapter of Business Laws of Canada. He is also a contributor to the BC Contaminated Sites Handbook, Halsbury's Laws of Canada and the Environmental Law Journal. He is a contributing editor of the Canadian Environmental Law Journal.

• Co-author : “The Buck Stops at the Top” – Lessons Learned: Mining Company Executive Found Guilty of Environmental Offences
  Blakes Bulletin on Environmental, August 14, 2023.
• Co-author : B.C. Significantly Increasing Soil Relocation Requirements
  Blakes Bulletin on Environmental, September 14, 2022.
• Co-author : Canada Finalizes Clean Fuel Regulations
  Blakes Bulletin on Environmental / Energy, July 11, 2022.
• Co-author : Canada Chapter
  The Environment and Climate Change Law Review, Sixth Edition, Law Business Research, January 2022.

Admitted to the Nunavut Bar – 2013
Admitted to the Yukon Bar – 2000
Admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar – 1996
Admitted to the British Columbia Bar – 1996
Admitted to the South Australia Bar – 1985
LLM, Environmental, University of Adelaide – 1995
LLB, University of Adelaide – 1985