PHOTOS: UCP leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer, grabbed from his campaign website. Below: B.C. NDP Premier John Horgan (Wikimedia Commons), Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley, and former WCP president Jeff Callaway. Supporters of United Conservative Party leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer shouldn’t get their hopes up that threatening to kick British Columbia
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: 2017: A Look Ahead
Thursday, January 5, 2017 Check out our short video to meet some of our talented lawyers and see what we're most excited about for 2017! From providing legal aid for communities to defend their environment, to revitalizing Indigenous laws, and holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Caring for the Salish Sea
Monday, December 19, 2016 At West Coast we’re buckling down to protect the Salish Sea, the global atmosphere, and future generations – a journey that will take us through 2017 and likely well beyond. My colleague Eugene Kung has described the new phase of efforts to stop the Kinder Morgan expansion. At
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Great Pipeline War
The next time Justin Trudeau visits Vancouver he'll have to keep a low profile, or wear plenty of camouflage paint.Because the Great Pipeline War has finally begun in earnest. But although the protests will be loud, and you can count me among those who believe that no new pipelines should be
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Trudeau’s pipeline approvals fail to recognize the “magnitude” of the climate problem
Thursday, December 1, 2016 The thing that frustrated me most when watching the Prime Minister’s press conference earlier this week approving the Kinder Morgan and Line 3 pipelines is that he – or at least his government – knows that these pipelines undermine Canada’s climate goals and move us away
Continue readingAlberta Politics: If Alberta PCs can’t ensure basic rules around inclusivity and harassment, they’re not fit to govern: Rachel Notley
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley at yesterday afternoon’s press conference in the Legislature media room. Below: U.S. President Elect Donald Trump and his unsuccessful Democratic Party challenger, Hillary Clinton (Photo by Gage Skidmore, Flickr). When a few journalists showed up in the Legislature’s media room yesterday afternoon for Rachel Notley’s
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Dozens of Students Arrested in Ottawa Protesting Kinder Morgan Pipeline
Dozens of students from around Canada were arrested on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, while protesting Kinder Morgan’s proposed $5.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The protest was the largest act of youth-led climate civil disobedience in Canadian history. The post Dozens of Students Arrested in Ottawa Protesting Kinder Morgan Pipeline
Continue readingAlberta Politics: ‘Bernard the Roughneck’ campaign has been in preparation for months, may soon target Rachel Notley
PHOTOS: Neal (Bernard the Roughneck) Hancock’s first appearance on a well-known right-wing video blog in January 2015. (Screenshot) Below: Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney with his new friend Bernard, who was making a rare public appearance in mufti; Shannon Stubbs with her husband Shayne Saskiw and a friend; and
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It can’t help the oil-well drillers’ campaign that ‘Bernard the Roughneck’ appeared in 2014 theatrical production
PHOTOS: Neal Hancock, nowadays better known as Bernard the Roughneck, with his co-star in a 2014 theatrical production in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. The play was about a boot-maker who had his foot amputated. Below: Lakeland MP Shannon Stubbs (from her Facebook account), Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors President Mark Scholz (from the CAODC’s website), […]
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Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Lessons from a summer at West Coast
Friday, August 12, 2016
West Coast Environmental Law Association was lucky to have four talented students join us this summer from law schools across the co…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Lessons from a summer at West Coast
Friday, August 12, 2016
West Coast Environmental Law Association was lucky to have four talented students join us this summer from law schools across the co…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Spills in BC: Will we be ready? Have your say
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Would BC be ready for a major spill? Now is your chance to have your say.
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Montreal Simon: How the Trudeau Government Can Stop the Kinder Morgan Pipeline
As expected the National Energy Board has approved the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.The National Energy Board (NEB) has recommended approval of the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project, subject to a whopping 157 envi…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Disobedience-The Rise Of Global Fossil Fuel Resistance
It has become crystal clear that our governments will only move as far and fast as they have to. The pressure from the corporate fossil fuel world, their bankers, and their obedient politicians Read more…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Dilbit Dogma: On Pipelines to Tidewater
Friday, April 15, 2016
According to pipeline supporters and cheerleaders, one of the primary ratio…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP Leader Adrian Dix Isn’t Short Sighted With His Position On Oil Pipelines
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor Cowichan Conversations and Common Sense Canadian contributor Kevin Logan has hit the big time with this opinion piece carried by the Vancouver Province. His was a response to an editorial quibbling with the BC NDP Leader’s announcement that the BC NDP were opposed to expanding the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Election Campaign Showing That The BC NDP Are Ready To Govern
Adrian Dix maintains a strong lead. It is just past a week into the BC Election Campaign and it is Adrian Dix showing that he knows his onions when it comes to campaigning. For some considerable time Adrian has aggressively pursued support in all constituencies through the province. Now he
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The case of the tankers and the missing insurance money
Thursday, January 24, 2013 Kinder Morgan’s proposal to expand its oil pipeline from Alberta’s Tarsands to Burnaby will dramatically increase the number of oil tankers passing through the Salish Sea, and increase the likelihood of a spill. But if and when there is a spill, the insurance funds available –
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