If you live in Richmond then, from today (April 15th) until June 30th, you may see planes flying overhead, spraying you with a pesticide, known as Foray 48B, to attack Gypsy Moths that might be hiding in your backyard. Foray 48B contains a naturally occurring b
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.
I know that most of our readers are probably not Twitter-users. We at West Coast Environmental Law are pretty new to Twitter ourselves. If you have absolutely no interest in Twitter you might want to read another post.&n
UPDATE - APRIL 26, 2010 - See our new blog post and Facebook Group.
Unless you keep a close eye on announcements from the US Department of Transportation, you may have missed, as I did, this announcement from US Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood:
Last week, BC’s Minister of Forests and Range, Pat Bell, announced the introduction of a new Zero Net Deforestation Act. Minister Bell explained:
Last week I read this announcement of the launch of Transition Canada – a national network to facilitate transition towns in Canada. I haven’t been able to find much further information about this new organization, but there have been
West Coast Environmental Law has been working with communities along the controversial proposed Enbridge Pipeline and oil tanker route to make sure that their views are fully considered in any government decision.
As West Coast Environmental Law reported in a separate post, BC’s enforcement of environmental laws continues to drop. And, as I noted in that post, in addition to general job in enforcement there is also reason to be concerned
Over the past week West Coast Environmental Law has been crunching figures from the province’s Compliance and Enforcement Summaries.
We are now 5 days into a stand-off between the Okanagan Indian Band and Tolko Industries at Browns Creek on the west side of Okanagan Lake. With Tolko in court today seeking an enforcement order to remove Elders, band members, supporters and Chiefs from Browns Creek, things are about to escalata further.