In December 2012 the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria published a collection of environmental law reform proposals, with contributions from a variety of leading environmental lawyers, which inc
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This interview was originally published by Digital Journal and was written by Grace C. Visconti.
Here’s what the government says it’s doing through amendments to BC’s Forest Act which it introduced last Wednesday (Feb 20th):
Idle No More raises questions about both the past and future of Canada itself. It goes to the reality that we are a nation with a colonial history, and that we have not yet come to grips with that history.
A guest blog post from Gerald Amos, Headwaters Initiative
Kudos to Greenpeace Canada for finding something of a smoking gun exposing the role of the oil and gas industry in the gutting of Canada’s environmental laws. Greenpeace has released a letter
The decision of the Yukon Court of Appeal in Ross River Dena Council v.
Well, tomorrow (January 4th) the Enbridge Joint Review Panel arrives in Victoria. It’s in Vancouver on January 14th, and in Kelowna on the 28th. So this is a big month in the southern part of our province for those concerned about the Enbridge Pipeline and Tanker Project.
In December 2010, representatives of sixty-one Indigenous nations came together in an historic alliance to protect the Fraser watershed and our coastal waters from the threat of oil spills.The result was the Save the Fraser Declaration, which bans tar sands projects, like the Enbridge pipeline and tankers p
Nerd alert: Discussion of tedious yet vital regulatory procedure ahead.