Existing and projected industrial growth in northwest BC, coupled with existing and projected climate change, has resulted in a heightened and growing need to consider the cumulative environmental, social and economic outcomes of developments.
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Publication Date: January 2013
Pages: 23
In 2010, two unequivocal Indigenous-law based declarations were signed by First Nations, definitively banning tar sands crude oil tankers, pipelines and infrastructure from their territories.
Publication Date: December 2012
Pages: 8
On November 21st, 2012, First Nations and environmental, recreation and grassroots groups supported by more than half a million Canadians issued an open letter opposing the federal government’s controversial second omnibus bill of 2012, Bill C-45.
Publication Date: November 2012
Pages: 2
On November 7, 2012, Rachel Forbes of West Coast Environmental Law submitted comments to the Standing Committee on Envioronment and Sustainable Development on Division 21 of Bill C-45, which amends the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012.
Publication Date: November 2012
Pages: 14
This publication is West Coast's written submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources study of Divisions 4, 18 and 21 of Part 4 of omnibus budget Bill C-45.
Publication Date: November 2012
Pages: 10
This backgrounder provides information about the Enbridge Joint Review Panel process and answers questions you may have if you are scheduled to give an oral statement before the Panel.
Publication Date: November 2012
Pages: 10
Our climate is changing, and we need to plan for a “new normal”.
Publication Date: October 2012
Pages: 110
West Coast's submissions to the federal environmental assessment Review Panel on its Draft Public Hearing Procedures and Draft Procedures for Requesting Confidentiality for the proposed New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project.
Publication Date: September 2012
Pages: 5
This publication is West Coast Environmental Law's submission on recommended amendments to the current Regulations Designating Physical Activities (RDPA) under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012 (CEAA 2012).
Publication Date: August 2012
Pages: 10
This publication is comprised of two separate documents relating to the 2012 BC Carbon Tax review.
Publication Date: August 2012
Pages: 11