Our Climate Law in our Hands campaign recently attracted national attention when Alberta’s oil and gas indu
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.
As 2018 comes to a close, the West Coast team wanted to share our victories and milestones with our “Year in Review”
A large majority of Canadians believe that fossil fuel companies should pay a fair share of the costs of climate change, rather than leaving all of the costs of wildfires, floods and rising sea-levels to taxpayers. But you wouldn’t know it from the howls of outrage, ridicule and indignation that has been piled on the resort municipality of Whistler over the past week for suggesting just that.
Earlier this week the Quebec organization, Environnement Jeunesse (ENJEU), announced it was filing a class action lawsuit against the Canadian government for a failure to protect youth from climate change.
There has been a rash of complaints lately about efforts to strengthen and streamline federal decision-making on projects that affect the environment through
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting different results…"
In the last few sunny days of August, I took a trip to the Okanagan, which had been ablaze just a few days before with a series of major wildfires.
To be a responsible fiscal manager, you need a budget. And to be a responsible climate leader, you also need a budget – a carbon budget.
We narrowly lost the vote, but I felt surprisingly good about it.
7:29am, Thursday, August 30th, 2018:
We’re in a boardroom high above downtown Vancouver, not far from Robson Street where I’m told there used to be a great hunting path. I’m on the Federal Court of Appeal’s website, refreshing my web browser obsessively.