In June 2017, environmental assessment (EA) experts from across Canada gathered in Ottawa to discuss how to implement next-generation EA principles in Canadian legislation.
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Publication Date: August 2017
Pages: 40
This submission outlines key recommendations from West Coast Environmental Law Association in response to the federal government's
Publication Date: August 2017
Pages: 19
This submission outlines key recommendations from West Coast Environmental Law Association in response to the federal government's
Publication Date: August 2017
Pages: 4
This submission to the federal review of the Fisheries Act sets out West Coast Environmental Law Association’s top ten recommendations to strengthen and modernize this important law.
Publication Date: August 2017
Pages: 12
Following the release of the federal government’s discussion paper outlining proposals to strengthen environmental laws and p
Publication Date: July 2017
Pages: 8
In June 2017, the federal government announced proposed amendments to the Oceans Act, Canada’s flagship marine protection law.
Publication Date: June 2017
Pages: 3
Indigenous peoples have been governing marine territories using their own legal traditions since time immemorial. For the most part, Indigenous legal orders have not been recognized or upheld in the governance of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Canada.
Publication Date: June 2017
Pages: 16
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
The historic NDP/Green alliance in British Columbia has committed to "Immediately employ every tool available to the new government to stop the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the seven-fold increase in tanker traffic on our coast, and the transportation of raw bitumen through our provin
Publication Date: June 2017
Pages: 8
Please see below to download materials for the Oceans 20 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Canada's Oceans Act (June 13-15, 2017).
AGENDA + ATTENDEES
Publication Date: June 2017