Thursday, June 14, 2012 On May 31, 2012, I travelled to Ottawa, on behalf of West Coast Environmental Law Association, to speak in person about the budget bill’s attack on nature and democracy to the House of Commons Finance Subcommittee on Part 3 of Budget Bill C-38. What is Part 3
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: Freedom Train 2012 Taking Enbridge opposition Canada-wide
Thursday, May 17, 2012 The cross-Canada railway has always been a powerful symbol. Over the years it has been celebrated as a “nation-building” exercise by some, while it is remembered as a source of deep injustice by others. Chinese and Indigenous labourers worked to build the tracks in dangerous conditions
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Vancouver joins local governments opposed to increase in oil pipelines and tankers
Monday, May 14, 2012 West Coast Environmental Law applauds two of Vancouver’s elected bodies – Vancouver City Council and the Vancouver Parks Board – for passing resolutions to take a formal position on the proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion project, and associated oil tanker traffic. West Coast Environmental Law,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Headlines, Pipelines and Time Spent on the Front Lines
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Reflections of two legal interns from Australia As part of our internship with West Coast Environmental Law, we recently travelled with staff counsel to some of the Northern BC communities that would be affected by the proposed Enbridge pipelines and supertankers project, to the community hearings
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Save the Fraser Declaration – Alberta and Northwest Territories First Nations join BC First Nations in opposing Enbridge Pipeline and Tankers Proposal
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 On January 30th, media, First Nations groups, activists and one law student intern crowded into a hotel room on the outskirts of Edmonton for a press conference held by the Yinka Dene Alliance. Alberta and Northwest Territories First Nations signed on to the historic “Save the
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The fast and the furious – Coming changes to environmental laws speed up process for industry and are an accident waiting to happen for the public and our environment
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 The federal government seems set on further gutting theCanadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA), and is expected to introduce “sweeping” regulatory changes to CEAA and related legislation in the House of Commons in the coming weeks. These changes could affect upcoming proposals for pipelines, tar sands projects,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Tsilhqot’in v. Taseko and smart litigation
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 West Coast Environmental Law congratulates the Tsilhqot’in First Nation on its most recent court win in its efforts to protect Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) from the development of Taseko’s Prosperity (now called “New Prosperity”) mine. Last week lawyers for the Tsilhqot’in and Taseko tangled in court,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: What I learned at the Climate Action Network’s Conference
Friday, November 4, 2011
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I was in Montreal, where I joined with elected officials, civil servants, labour activists, e…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Prosperity Redux: a disappointing decision for the environment, First Nations and the EA process
Monday, November 7, 2011
Today, November 7, 2011, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) announced that Taseko Mine Ltd.’s gold and cop…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The legal arguments in favour of a cosmetic pesticide ban
Monday, November 7, 2011
Today (November 7th) I’m appearing before the BC Legislature’s Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides to argue in fav…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Local governments on the south coast make a move on oil tankers
Thursday, October 13, 2011
At the end of September, West Coast lawyers hit the Union of B.C. …
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The New Prosperity proposal raises a bottomless pit of questions
Friday, September 30, 2011
For almost twenty years Taseko Mines Ltd. has claimed it is impossible …
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Tanker ban runs aground (for now) – but people power will keep oil off our coast
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
One of Stephen Harper's first statements to the press the day after the…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Whistler clears the air around Asphalt Plant
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Yesterday the Mayor and Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Rap on Rapid Transit
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Anyone interested in rapid transit in Vancouver has until this Friday, April 22nd to tell Translink what they think about the propos…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Environmentalists outgunned by oil industry lobbyists
Monday, April 18, 2011
An article in La Presse demonstrates that oil industry lobbyists get about …
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The debate you didn’t hear on climate change
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Last Tuesday’s English Language leadership debates are over with ha…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: So why does West Coast Environmental Law need a blog?
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Well everyone else had one, and we just felt left out…
Seriously, though: here are the top 5 reasons why West Coast has launched the Environmental Law Alert bl…