Through our Environmental Law Alert blog, West Coast keeps you up to date on the latest developments and issues in environmental law. This includes:
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.
On October 1st, 2025, the Alberta government announced its intention to develop a proposal for a new crude oil pipeline to transport raw bitumen to the north Pacific coast. Unfortunately this idea fails to acknowledge some important realities.
This blog provides a reality-check on five key issues that must be central to the conversation about the idea of a proposed pipeline to the BC coast.
The High Seas Treaty will govern areas of the ocean that are beyond national jurisdiction. Canada has signed – but not ratified – this important international agreement. Send a message to your MP and federal Ministers urging them to ratify the High Seas Treaty without delay!
Parliament passed Bill C-5 giving the federal government sweeping powers to fast-track projects deemed to be in the “national interest.” We’ve set out seven non-negotiable criteria for what truly counts as being in the national interest.
This summer, the West Coast office has been buzzing with the addition of five law students to our team. Check out what they had to say about their time with us!
This Canada Day we are reflecting on the values that we need most to stand up in this moment and the history we need to learn from. Here is what some of our staff have to say.
We spoke with Katłıà Lafferty, RELAW’s Co-learning Manager and Rayanna Seymour-Hourie, Staff Lawyer and RELAW Program Lead, about what RELAW is up to as it approaches its ten-year anniversary.
Check out a list of ten questions you can ask to find out where your federal election candidates and their parties sit on key priorities for climate, nature and communities.
Take the pledge today and tell parties that this federal election, you are voting for a resilient, sustainable and fair Canada.
Know a young person who has made important contributions to environmental justice in BC, and/or who has a vision for how strong Canadian and/or Indigenous laws could contribute to ecological and community resilience in BC over the next 50 years. Nominate them to be recognized as a Young Changemaker for Environmental Justice!
If the rights and obligations declared within UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples cannot be enforced in court, are they anything more than words on a page? This issue is squarely on the table in the BC Court of Appeal proceedings in Gitxaała Nation v BC (Chief Gold Commissioner).