Tools and resources that raise environmental issues in the context of an election are always of interest over here at the West Coast Environmental Law Association. So we thought we’d direct our readers to two new tools.
Vote Environment 2013
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.
Well, the writ’s been dropped and this Environmental Law Alert post is brought to you by the West Coast Environmental Law Association, sponsor under the Elections Act. You’ll notice a message to that effect on the bottom of all posts for the coming weeks.
Last Tuesday (April 2nd), the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) invited the public to give input on whether an environmental assessment should be conducted for a proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Exp
This week and next week seem to be the official launch of the Environmental Law Centre’s Maintaining Supernatural BC for our Children. On Tuesday I joined ELC Legal Director, Calvin Sandborn, and another contr
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
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):
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