10 July 2012 - CANADA: Government passes wetlands compensation act
From IWA “Canada has passed an act determining compensation measures for projects that affect wetlands or bodies of water. The legislation allows the government to require compensation measures designed to ‘restore, create, protect or ecologically enhance’ a wetland or body of water, or a piece of land near either of these, as part of the conditions for authorising a project. The terms for applying the compensation measures have not yet been determined.”