Have your say on plastic waste management in BC
Now’s the time to raise your voice to help stem the rising tide of plastic waste, before it turns into a tsunami.
National Interest or National Liability? Kinder Morgan: risk and uncertainty abound
Kinder Morgan has set a May 31 deadline to get political certainty. What can the federal government do to achieve this? And will it alleviate the host of legal, financial, reputational and practical risks facing the project?
Support stronger regulations to keep BC safe from oil spills
We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make sure that our waters and coast are protected from oil spills – not just from Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tankers, but from any source for the future – through the modernization of our oil spill regulations in BC.
Communities say no to Kinder Morgan in the courts and in the streets
Things are heating up in the battle to stop Kinder Morgan. At time of writing, dozens of water protectors have been arrested for violating a court injunction issued last week. Here is a recap of how we got here.
Salmon are our buffalo: The environmental risks of fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago
As neighbouring US jurisdictions like Washington State move to ban fish farming on the Pacific coast and ‘Namgis First Nation files a lawsuit against Fisheries and Oceans Canada for current fish farm practices, West Coast staff members Maxine Matilpi and Stephanie Hewson reflect on the environmental impacts and ongoing Indigenous opposition to open ne
Canada’s proposed new Impact Assessment Act: Good from afar but far from good?
On February 8, the federal government unveiled Bill C-69, which would introduce a new law governing environmental assessments (EA), replace the maligned National Energy Board with a new Canadian Energy Regulator, and amend the Navigation Protection Act to introduce some additional protections (including by renaming it the Canadian Navigable Waters Act).
Mount Polley disaster escapes BC law because of government policy on private prosecutions
On January 30th, 2018, the BC government decided to drop the private prosecution launched by Bev Sellars into the Mount Polley disaster. Through her private prosecution, Bev, a grandmother and former chief of the Xat’sull First Nation, gave the provincial government a second chance to show that BC can enforce its own environmental laws.
Plankton over plastic: Citizen support for strong laws to reduce ocean plastics
Plastics permeate all aspects of our daily lives. Now plastic pollution plagues the planet. Marine plastic debris is pervasive, persistent, and has grave consequences for marine ecosystems.
Consider these facts: