This blog originally appeared in Slaw, Canada's online legal magazine.
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.
No matter where we come from, most of us want to care for the coast and ocean and the wildlife that call them home, and to leave a more abundant future for those to come.
In July, Canada released a discussion paper outlining options and considerations for establishing a cap on oil and gas sector emissions, as part of its strategy for reaching its 2030 r
Let’s show our elected local government officials that British Columbians support this key legislation.
The world has been seeing some alarming trends in food and nutrition security, and Canada is no exception.
West Coast really lucked out this year with our incredible cohort of summer law students!
Marine protected areas, or MPAs for short, are areas of the ocean that provide protection from harmful human activities and exploitation.
This blog originally appeared in Slaw, Canada's online legal magazine, where West Coast Executive Director and Senior Counsel Jessica Clogg is a regular columnist.
BC fisheries are struggling with declining stocks due to ever-increasing pressures from climate change, coastal development, pollution and industrial fishing. But we need only look to Indigenous leadership for solutions.
Coastal communities in BC have always relied on the ocean – for food, culture, recreation and livelihoods.