The BC Supreme Court has allowed the Province’s case against McKinsey to proceed as a class action, finding potential links between the company’s opioid-related misinformation and harm in BC. It raises the possibility of future lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and others for their climate deception.
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.
By sidelining scientific rigour and public oversight of those projects, Bill C-5 could put Canadians at risk while failing to address the immediate needs of Canadians whose employment and cost of living have been impacted by Trump’s tariffs. All while pitting Canadians against each other, fueling national dis-unity at a time when Canadians need to come together.
Ramming risky projects through with little or no oversight is not the pathway to a resilient, sustainable and fair economy. Instead, the BC government should work with First Nations, local governments and the public to find solutions that work.
Send a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and the Senate, asking them to scrap Bill C-5 and send it back to the drawing board. Canadians deserve – and need – better.
Bill C-5 is walking backwards into the future if it aims to support an outdated and expensive fossil fuel industry while moving in the direction of more climatic and environmental breakdown.
As the country with the longest coastline in the world, defending our values, identity and economy requires safeguarding the ocean. We must ensure that the federal government meets its commitments to building laws and policies that will safeguard the long-term ecological health of the ocean.
British Columbians are dying from fossil fuel pollution; will BC’s Attorney General take on Big Oil?
Burning global fossil fuel products kills hundreds of British Columbians every year and causes widespread harm, including heat injury, asthma, the spread of disease and heart disease.
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!