Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Staff Counsel Anna Johnston participated in the 10th annual Paddle for the Peace, a community event that brought hundreds of people along with canoes and kayaks to paddle down the Peace River in protest of the controversial Site C dam. The 10th annual Paddle for the
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: Telephone town hall on Kinder Morgan and environmental law rollbacks
Thursday, July 16, 2015 On June 18, the West Coast Environmental Law Association hosted a telephone town hall on what the rolling back of Canada's environmental laws means for oil tankers and the health and security of BC's coast. Hundreds of people heard from panelists Robyn Allan, former President and
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: West Coast demands reinstatement of illegally fired ALC Chair – and we encourage you to do so, as well
Monday, June 15, 2015 On May 14, 2015, nearly seven months before the designated end of his term, the BC Cabinet terminated Richard Bullock from his position as Chair of the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) without warning. Last week, West Coast wrote to the provincial government suggesting that Mr. Bullock’s
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Want to help protect our environment? Have your say on how you can have a say
Thursday, May 21, 2015 Meaningful public participation is a backbone of environmental assessment. But the BC environmental assessment backbone is broken. Now is your chance to help fix it. Until May 26th at 9:00 am PDT, you can provide feedback to the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) on its public participation
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Déjà vu – again? Another omnibus budget bill, more federal environmental law rollbacks
Monday, December 8, 2014 Click here to send a letter to Finance Minister Joe Oliver and your MP On October 23, 2014, the federal government introduced Bill C-43, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures (also called
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Selling wild fish down the river: Canada’s new aquaculture regulations put wild fish at risk
Monday, October 20, 2014 This past August, the Canadian government quietly proposed new Aquaculture Activities Regulations regulations that would drastically reduce federal oversight of the dumping of aquatic drugs, pesticides and waste into wild fish habitat by fish farms. We submitted our concerns with these regulations to the federal govnerment, calling
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: West Coast Comments on Proposed Federal Aquaculture Activities Regulations
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has proposed aquaculture regulations that risk making an already untenable situation surrounding net-cage aquaculture worse. Click here to go directly to West Coast Environmental Law's submission to DFO on the proposed Regulations. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has proposed
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Site C dam: The best option for new energy BC doesn’t need
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 The environmental assessment panel's reviewing BC Hydro’s proposed Site C dam on the Peace River was clear: Site C would have significant environmental and social consequences that would be unfairly borne by locals, those costs could only be justified by an unambiguous need for its power,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Bill 24 – Agricultural Land Commission Amendment Act: Undermining BC’s Food Security
Thursday, April 10, 2014 Following hot on the heels of the controversial Park Amendment Act (Bill 4), the BC government has introduced another bill that would open up some of the province’s most publicly valuable lands – in this case, its farmlands – to industrial development. Bill 24, the Agricultural Land
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