Environmental law organizations are increasingly talking about your right to a healthy environment. And that’s a good thing.
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.
First Nations in BC are playing a national leadership role in pushing back against the controversial Canada China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA), and are hooking up with some non-Aboriginal allies in that fight. We’ve just received a press release issued today by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), the Hup
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
[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
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.
The Conservative Party election promise, in 2008, to bring in a Cap and Trade system to tackle climate change has recently been in the news. But we’ve not heard any mention about another important energy-rel
If you’ve been watching Parliament in the past week or two you may have just heard mention of the phrase “carbon tax.” We’d be delighted if this meant that there was an intelligent debate going on in Parliament about how to address climate change, but unfortunately it
Thank you to Lori Waters for the following guest environmental law alert post.