Recent Publications
West Coast Environmental Law has been an advocate for strong legal protection for fish and fish habitat in Canada for close to 40 years. In this submission we offer comments on the legal framework...
What is free entry? The free entry system is the dominant means of granting mineral tenures in Canada today. It gives mining companies the exclusive right to Crown-owned mineral substances from...
On February 26, 2013 a small group of opinion leaders and decision-makers from across BC came together to engage in a high level public dialogue about the challenge of managing the cumulative...
In this report West Coast Environmental Law analyzes the resource management direction provided by twenty years of...
Residents of the Salish Sea region—Vancouver, Victoria, the Gulf Islands and Washington State—could see a four-fold...
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...
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. Nine...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
This publication is comprised of two separate documents relating to the 2012 BC Carbon Tax review.
The first document is the Joint Submission to the B.C. Ministry of Finance's...
This publication is West Coast Environmental Law's submission on recommended amendments to the current Regulations Designating Physical Activities (RDPA) under the Canadian Environmental...
On July 10, 2012 West Coast made submissions to a Special Committee on Timber Supply appointed by the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to examine potential actions to address anticipated...