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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.
It’s been almost a year since Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, attacked Canadian environmental groups in an open letter as “radicals”. Lots has been said since then about the Minister’s inflammatory rhetoric, but very little has been said about this
A new resource from West Coast Environmental Law
Jay Nelson has a unique perspective on the new Canadian Environmental Assessment act, 2012 (CEAA 2012). Jay has been representing the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG) in the current environmental assessment (EA) of the controversial New Prosperity mine project at
The final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River was released on October 31st, contrary to rumours that the document might not be made public. The report, while n
As public interest environmental lawyers, we think that it’s important for BC and Canada to have strong environmental laws. And, at least when asked in polls, a large majority of Canadians agree.
[Update - November 1st, 2012 - Click here to read our letter of today's date to the Department of Justice asking them to advise the Canadian government on the possible illegality of the Canada-China Foreig
Congratulations to Don Staniford – and his lawyer, David Sutherland – who, last month, defeated a lawsuit brought against him by fish farm giant, Mainstream Canada! The fish farm company had sued Don for a series of mock cigarette ads with warnings related to the impacts o
The Gitanyow Huwilp Recognition and Reconciliation Agreement
At the end of September, local government elected representatives from all over British Columbia listened to their constituents.