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.

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Upholding the Law, Protecting the Land, Sharing the Wealth

The Gitanyow Huwilp Recognition and Reconciliation Agreement

Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Squamish Nation sign Save the Fraser Declaration

On Saturday, July 7 2012 the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Squamish

Burns Bog, Strathcona Park cases ask: who benefits from BC’s protected areas?

Two legal cases are underway, funded by West Coast Environmental Law, that may answer the question: who benefits from BC’s protected areas?  The government?  The Queen of Canada? Or the public?

Freedom Train 2012: Taking Enbridge opposition Canada-wide
How should we slap back at SLAPPs?

We were alarmed to hear that Taseko Mines Ltd., the company that wants to develop the controversial Prosperity Mine, is suing the Wilderness Committee and one of its employees.  This is a disturbing reminder that the law

Drinking water wins in Jefferd Creek logging battle

In 2004 the residents of the tiny community of Stillwater, near Powell River, learned that BC Timber Sales (BCTS) was planning to auction off the rights to clearcut 12.5 hectares in the Jefferd Creek watershed, which is the source of their drinking water.  Well, it’s been a long fight, but after 8 years and a series of grants to the Committ

Headlines, Pipelines and Time Spent on the Front Lines
Reflections of two legal interns from Australia
Enbridge linked to PNCIMA cancellation

Revelations on Sunday that Enbridge had actively, and successfully, lobbied the federal government to walk away from an agreement that was central to a decade long planning proc

Save the Fraser Declaration - Alberta and Northwest Territories First Nations join BC First Nations in opposing Enbridge Pipeline and Tankers Proposal

Nicole Peterson is a legal intern with West Coast Environmental Law who is participating in the Osgoode Aboriginal Clinical Intensive Program.  She writes:

First Nations from North, South and Interior stand against oil tankers and pipelines

December 1st marked a turning point in the effort to protect the Pacific coast and the watersheds that we all depend on from the threat of oil spills.