Wednesday, February 1, 2017 These simple and profound words, “Water is Sacred,” have become a call to action in North Dakota. Since April 2016, thousands of people have gathered there to protect water from “the Black Snake,” the Dakota Access pipeline proposed to bring oil under the Missouri River. After a year
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: Mni Wiconi: Water is life, more than ever
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 These simple and profound words, “Water is Sacred,” have become a call to action in North Dakota. Since April 2016, thousands of people have gathered there to protect water from “the Black Snake,” the Dakota Access pipeline proposed to bring oil under the Missouri River. After a year
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Will the Pacific north coast oil tanker ban hold water? A review of Canada’s proposed new legislation
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 On November 29, 2016, the federal government announced that it will introduce legislation in spring 2017 to entrench an oil tanker ban on the north coast of British Columbia, and it provided preliminary details on the content of the legislation. In our new publication, West Coast
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Will the Pacific north coast oil tanker ban hold water? A review of Canada’s proposed new legislation
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 On November 29, 2016, the federal government announced that it will introduce legislation in spring 2017 to entrench an oil tanker ban on the north coast of British Columbia, and it provided preliminary details on the content of the legislation. In our new publication, West Coast
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 readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Kinder Morgan’s Salad Days of Summer
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
The warmth and relative freedom of summer creates an atmosphere of spontaneity and often last-minute plans come together: “Let&…
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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Environmental 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 readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: See you in court, Enbridge! First Nations launch legal challenges to Enbridge pipelines and tankers project
Friday, July 18, 2014 In a wave of legal filings on July 11 and July 14, 2014, eight First Nations from Haida Gwaii to Yinka Dene territory west of Prince George set in motion legal proceedings that, combined with 9 court cases filed earlier this year, have the potential to
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
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