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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A law student’s perspective of TWN’s announcement that it has denied approval of Kinder Morgan to proceed through in its territory.

Developing country negotiators at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, supported by environmental organizations, have declared today to be Loss and Damages Day – focusing on the need to rapidly reduce the world’s greenhouse gas emissions to avoid even more loss and damages than we’re suffering already and on the need for a robust loss and damages

Talia McKenzie first found out that she was going to be living next to a gravel pit the day she picked up the keys to her new home in the Cowichan Valley.

Canada is not a super-power.  We’re geographically large, but small in terms of population.  And when it comes to climate change we’re used to hearing politicians say that we’re “only” responsible for about 2% of the world’s greenho

The phrase “do as I say, not as I do” comes to mind.

Amid all the ocean stories dominating the headlines last week, like the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation’s decision to turn down a billion  dollar offer from an LNG proponent whose liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is  located in a hotspot of salmon biodiversity where they tradi

In the past two weeks, I embarked on something of a radical carbon offset program as one part of the growing mass movement to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion.

It’s budget season, and federal government departments are releasing reports on their spending for 2014-15 and projections for what they plan to spend in 2015-16.

Last month, Executive Director Jessica Clogg and I traveled to Ft. St.