Media Releases

Please be advised that effective 1 August 2020, West Coast Environmental Law's office address will be changed. 

Telephone and fax numbers remain the same.

OTTAWA, ON, Algonquin Anishnaabeg Territory – Environmental lawyers are welcoming improvements to the federal government’s Strategic Assessment of Climate Change (SACC), released today, but are also expressing frustration at its failure to establish an adequate “climate test” for assessing how in

Environmental lawyers vow to fight on as Court denies leave for Indigenous legal challenges

“The federal government investigating itself is clearly not an option,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, UBCIC

VANCOUVER, BC, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – Lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law are calling on the BC Liberal Caucus to correct misinformation aimed at undermining environmental organizations and lawful resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Wet’suwet’en territ

Narrow Federal Court of Appeal decision is a blow for reconciliation and sustainability, lawyers say  

Groups launch petition demanding full disclosure by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Amending legislation passed in Bill C-69 or C-48 would diminish public trust, say enviro lawyers

VICTORIA, BC, Lekwungen Territories – West Coast Environmental Law Association is celebrating today’s introduction of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which will bring the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“UN Declaration”) into provincial law.

Legislation loses points for regulations that exempt high-carbon projects from review

OTTAWA — The Canadian government has surpassed its commitment to protect at least 10 per cent of its oceans before 2020.

VICTORIA/VANCOUVER, BC - As Taseko Mines once again attempts to force its way with an injunction to start drilling in Tŝilhqot’in ancestral

OTTAWA/VANCOUVER – Late yesterday evening Senators voted to pass Bill C-69, which contains important changes to Canada’s laws pertaining to impact assessment, energy regulation, and protection of navigable waters.

VANCOUVER, BC, Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – Environmental lawyers welcome the news that Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, has passed a final vote in the Senate and will become law.

Environmental and conservation groups respond to modernized Fisheries Act

Government rejects Senate amendment that would add unneeded re-assessment of the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act

Motion tabled in House of Commons today would restore key safeguards Canadians voted for in 2015, environmental lawyers say

OTTAWA – Over 90 per cent of Canadians support the call to protect 30 per cent of the country’s oceans by 2030, according to a survey released today by Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, West Coast Environmental Law and World Wildlife Fund Canada.

Federal bill renewing Canada’s Oceans Act receives Royal Assent

Canada’s top court will be called on to resolve constitutionality of BC’s proposed law

Unelected Senate must honour government commitment to a B.C. North Coast oil tanker moratorium, groups say

OTTAWA - Members of the Senate committee reviewing Bill C-69 have unleashed a tsunami of 240 amendments that threaten to destroy the integrity of the bill, say environmental groups.

Williams Lake, Secwepemc Territory – Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer from West Coast Environmental Law, is attending this week’s North Central Local Government Association (NCLGA) meeting to hear firsthand how wildfires and other climate-related impacts have affected northern communities – and how th

Ottawa, Ont.

All projects that pose a climate risk must receive a rigorous assessment, say environmental lawyers