Wednesday, May 29, 2013 This is a guest post from Carol Linnit, and was originally published on DeSmog Blog. To see the original post, click here. Sure they’re bad for the environment, for human health, and for wildlife, but we rarely stop to wonder if the Alberta tar sands are
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: Taking the Pipeline and Tankers Debate to Enbridge’s Door
Thursday, May 9, 2013 It was a very long way to travel to be turned away at the door. As I noted in an earlier post, a delegation of us journeyed from BC to Enbridge’s Annual General Meeting, on Wednesday, May 8th, to deliver to shareholders and the Board of
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Thursday, May 9, 2013 It was a very long way to travel to be turned away at the door. As I noted in an earlier post, a delegation of us journeyed from BC to Enbridge’s Annual General Meeting, on Wednesday, May 8th, to deliver to shareholders and the Board of
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: West Coast Environmental Law joins citizens delegation at Enbridge’s annual meeting of shareholders
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 I’m excited to be heading to the Enbridge AGM in Calgary on May 8 on behalf of West Coast. I’ll be accompanying a diverse group of concerned community members from the BC North Coast and from Alberta, including commercial fishers, farmers, youth and representatives of the
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 I’m excited to be heading to the Enbridge AGM in Calgary on May 8 on behalf of West Coast. I’ll be accompanying a diverse group of concerned community members from the BC North Coast and from Alberta, including commercial fishers, farmers, youth and representatives of the
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Jessica Clogg explains Bill C-45, First Nations Rights, FIPA
Monday, March 4, 2013 This interview was originally published by Digital Journal and was written by Grace C. Visconti. Click here to go to the article as it was originally published. Vancouver – West Coast Environmental Law Executive Director and Senior Counsel Jessica Clogg explains ramifications of Bill C-45, First
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Prosperity Fund ignores coal, oil and climate change
Monday, February 18, 2013 In its Throne Speech (on Monday, February 12th, 2013), the BC government unveiled its promise for a Prosperity Fund – a fund that promises to channel revenues from natural gas exports to a designated fund to benefit future British Columbians. It’s an idea that the environmental
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: First Nations and BC Mayors stand together against threat of oil tankers and pipelines
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 In December 2010, representatives of sixty-one Indigenous nations came together in an historic alliance to protect the Fraser watershed and our coastal waters from the threat of oil spills.The result was the Save the Fraser Declaration, which bans tar sands projects, like the Enbridge pipeline and
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Campaigners to stop Enbridge and super tankers make a pilgrimage to northern coastal ecosystems and communities being put at risk
Thursday, September 15, 2011
At the end of the summer, West Coast and our allies in the campaign t…
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