Wouldn’t you know it – I go away on holiday for a week and all kinds of stories happen and I’m not there to write them up for the Environmental Law Alert Blog. Here are a handful of stories that were interesting – relating either to environment or law, or both – which I might have written posts about if I’d been here. Seriously thoug
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UPDATE - FEBRUARY 1ST, 2011 - The Friends of Davie Bay's legal challenge goes to court in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver this morning.
A guest post by Richard Overstall
Urgent Update - July 13, 2010: Last Thursday the Senate National Finance Committee heeded the call of West Coast Environmental Law and other conservation groups by cutting provisions from federal budget bill C-9 that would have s
On Tuesday (July 6th) the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released the decision in
On Friday (July 2nd) the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency released the assessment report prepared in respect of the
West Coast Environmental Law is concerned about the province’s response to the landslide that hit Oliver, BC on June 13th. The slide was caused by a man-made lake created by Elkink Ranch Ltd.
As noted in an earlier post, on June 15th the Cohen Commission began its first hearings into the causes of the collapse of the Fraser sockeye, and the Commission is
The Cohen Commission – appointed to investigate the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye runs – started its first hearings on Tuesday (June 15th), with submissions from participants on what topics it should be investigating. There’s been some coverage in the media, from
By Justin Basinger and Dyna Tuytel, Legal Interns, West Coast Environmental Law