Environmental Lawyer●Renewable Energies

Our law firm supports companies, public entities, individuals, and associations, both in advisory and litigation, in all environmental issues related to agricultural land.

• Renewable energies (wind power, agrivoltaics, photovoltaics, methanization…)
• Water Law (IOTA)
• Polluted sites and soils, quarry exploitation (pollution: groundwater, watercourse, industrial agriculture, factory,sea, livestock farming, agricultural land
• Environmental authorizations
• Classified installations for environmental protection (ICPE)
• Nuisances
• Waste
• Biodiversity
• Protected species
• Environmental criminal law, OFB control
• Repair of environmental damage and ecological harm
• Risks
• Environmental audits
• Environmental contracting
• Destruction of wetlands

All actors in society are now concerned by environmental issues. Environmental law is cross-cutting, and it continues to grow and expand each year. Moreover, it is a legal field that suffers from particular complexity. It is essential to address it.

Lawyer for renewable energy development on agricultural land

The firm Macfarlanes LLP is a privileged partner for your renewable energy development projects on agricultural land, given its expertise in agricultural law. The mandatory rules of the farm lease status must be respected, and expertise in this specialty is essential.

Environmental acquisition audit lawyer

Our lawyers support you in advisory capacity, upstream of a project. In this regard, the firm provides environmental acquisition audits that secure a transaction through the insertion of environmental clauses, environmental liability guarantees, and supports you in post-operation litigation.

Furthermore, Macfarlanes LLP also supports you in the steps aimed at obtaining an environmental authorization for the development of an activity classified for the protection of the environment (ICPE) or under the water law (IOTA).

Lawyer for environmental contracting and litigation

Finally, our firms support you in your negotiations concerning environmental issues, particularly through environmental contracting, for example in the form of real environmental obligation contracts (ORE).

In litigation, Macfarlanes LLP supports you in all environmental disputes you encounter: combating nuisances, soil pollution, destruction of protected species, criminal environmental offenses, violations of ICPE legislation, abnormal neighborhood disturbances, and compensation for environmental damage.