The Lower Fraser River and its estuary host a remarkable diversity of species within a globally important ecosystem, including its role as one of the greatest salmon bearing rivers in the world.
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Publication Date: October 2020
Pages: 10
Over the past several years, lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law have received a number of inquiries from Indigenous trapline holders in BC seeking to protect their hereditary and registered traplines from the cumulative impacts of various industrial projects including logging, mining, hydroe
Publication Date: August 2018
Pages: 92
In the summer of 2017, BC’s new provincial government promised to reform environmental assessment and planning in British Columbia.
Publication Date: January 2018
Pages: 24
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted in 2007, and was endorsed by the Government of Canada in 2016. More recently, the federal government released its Principles res
Publication Date: September 2017
Pages: 54
The combined effect of hundreds of thousands of different approvals, licences and unpermitted activities have combined over time to degrade our natural life support systems – the web of life that we are part of, and depend upon, to sustain our cultures and economies.
Publication Date: June 2017
Pages: 120
An open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed by
Publication Date: November 2015
Pages: 1
An open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change regarding the NEB process.
Publication Date: November 2015
Pages: 4
The eighteen legal challenges to the federal
Publication Date: July 2015
The Andrew Thompson award was established in 2002 by West Coast Environmental Law and the Thompson family as a legacy to Dr. Andrew Thompson, and was made possible through the generosity of the Thompson family.
Publication Date: November 2014
Pages: 2
This Submission is a response to the International Joint Commissions (IJC) requests for comments on the application of the Canadian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission (CCRIFC) to have the IJC enforce the conditions of its Order of Approval for the Grand Coulee Dam and reservoir (th
Publication Date: October 2005
Pages: 10