Tuesday, September 29, 2015 On September 24, 2015 the National Energy Board (NEB) did something remarkable. They stopped time. More precisely, they traveled back in time, to September 18, 2015,…
Monday, September 21, 2015 When a government makes changes to a regulatory framework, it takes time – sometimes years – before its actual impacts can be known. Now, almost two…
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Summer law student Justine Desmond reviews a recently-published article by Peter Frumhoff, Richard Heede and Naomi Oreskes suggesting that major carbon-producing companies should take greater responsibility…
Monday, August 17, 2015 Summer law student volunteer Rachel Gutman travelled to Vancouver Island with Staff Counsel Anna Johnston to hear from people who have been affected by rollbacks to…
Thursday, August 13, 2015 The summer is quickly coming to a close, and the West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL) summer law student volunteers want to take this opportunity to thank…
Thursday, August 6, 2015 Beneath the earth lies groundwater, buried treasure in the form of aquifers. Manage it well, and the treasure will continue to nourish us for generations to…
Thursday, July 23, 2015 This week West Coast Environmental Law held a meeting “Go With the Flow: Meeting on Regulations for the BC Water Sustainability Act” with allies in the…
Monday, July 20, 2015 The eighteen legal challenges to the federal government’s approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project are scheduled to be heard together in Vancouver this…
Tuesday, July 21, 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…
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 A group of law student volunteers created a website that features summaries of the evidence submitted by intervenors in the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion…
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 Guest bloggers Allison Russell and Emily Beveridge from Rana Law explain lawsuits by a group of Treaty 8 First Nations against the federal and BC governments’…
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 A law student’s perspective of TWN’s announcement that it has denied approval of Kinder Morgan to proceed through in its territory. A law student’s perspective of…
Monday, June 15, 2015 The Auditor General has released a report criticizing the province’s failure to adequately manage the cumulative impacts of resource development in BC. On May 26, 2015…
Monday, May 18, 2015 At a critical time for aquaculture in Canada comes a recent court victory for wild salmon. Activist and biologist Alexandra Morton, represented by Ecojustice lawyers, won…
Friday, May 15, 2015 Despite the Province of BC’s tough talk about its conditions for oil pipelines, in ongoing litigation regarding the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers proposal BC…
Friday, May 15, 2015 Staff Counsel Eugene Kung reports on a landmark journey with Tsleil-Waututh Nation leadership to New York and Texas to meet with Kinder Morgan investors and attend…
Friday, May 15, 2015 Amid all the ocean stories dominating the headlines last week, like the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation’s decision to turn down a billion dollar offer from an…
Friday, May 15, 2015 Some call sea-level rise a "slow-moving emergency", with a 1m rise predicted by 2100 and an estimated $9.5bn price tag to prepare BC for that rise.…
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 On April 21, the federal government released its 2015 budget. Weighing in at over 500 pages, it contains a number of measures related to the environment.…
Thursday, April 16, 2015 How much environmental protection could Canada get for the price of government advertising? In the wake of the 2015 federal budget release, Staff Counsel Anna Johnston…
