Note: West Coast Environmental Law is proud to have provided an initial grant to the Hupacasath Nation through the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund (EDRF) to develop this legal challenge.
Environmental Law Alert Blog
Through our Environmental Law Alert blog, West Coast keeps you up to date on the latest developments and issues in environmental law. This includes:
- proposed changes to the law that will weaken, or strengthen, environmental protection;
- stories and situations where existing environmental laws are failing to protect the environment; and
- emerging legal strategies that could be used to protect our environment.
If you have an environmental story that we should hear about, please e-mail Andrew Gage. We welcome your comments on any of the posts to this blog – but please keep in mind our policies on comments.
On Earth Day (April 22nd) we joined many other environmental organizations in applauding Adrian Dix and the NDP for standing up for our coast, and expressing opposition to the expansion of the KinderMorgan Pipeline. We were pleased to see similar language in the NDP’s platform, release
A Guest Post by Nazanine Parent, cancer survivor and Canadian Cancer Society BC and Yukon volunteer. The West Coast Environmental Law Association has been working closely with t
A snow storm that blew through central Canada made this year’s March 19 Ottawa’s snowiest on record. But there was more than weather to distinguish this as a historic date.
As the Yinka Dene Alliance and their allies were gathering in Ottawa to renew their opposition to Tar Sands Pipelines on March 19th, Natural Resource Minister, Joe Oliver, was in Terrace, BC, to
This week and next week seem to be the official launch of the Environmental Law Centre’s Maintaining Supernatural BC for our Children. On Tuesday I joined ELC Legal Director, Calvin Sandborn, and another contr
When is a municipality not a municipality?
When no one lives there.
(silence)
This interview was originally published by Digital Journal and was written by Grace C. Visconti.
On Wednesday, Feb 20th, the Provincial Government issued a press release stating (among other things) that it was introducing changes to BC’s Integrated Pest Management Act (hat tip to Kathryn Seeley at the Canadian Cancer Society for directin