Federal government reviews of environmental laws: Processes where people matter
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 On June 20, the federal government unveiled a wide-ranging review of the dr...
Environmental Assessment
Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water: The Cheakamus Retreat
Monday, June 20, 2016 The Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air, and Water (RELAW) Project is ...
Reflections on RELAW: The role of stories in law
Friday, June 17, 2016 West Coast is excited to launch the Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Ai...
Addressing cumulative effects in BC’s north
Monday, May 30, 2016 Today, in conjunction with the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research (...
Working towards a next-generation environmental assessment law for Canada
Friday, May 20, 2016 On May 1-3, West Coast Environmental Law hosted a Federal Environmental Asses...
Emission Omission: Canadian government plans to assess only some pipeline greenhouse gases
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 The Canadian government wants to know what you think about its plans to co...
Getting to yes: A process for building Canada’s visionary new environmental assessment act
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Last November, in a federally-unprecedented move, Prime Minister Trudeau m...
Province Can’t Pass the Buck on Oil Pipelines: BC Supreme Court
Thursday, January 14, 2016 West Coast has previously suggested that, in spite of the Province of B...
Day 5: Northern Gateway seeks to defend the "gold standard" review process
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Day 5 of 6 – we are on the home stretch! Today we heard from Northern Gateway about what it labelled the “gold standard” approach to…
Day 3: Environmental and labour organizations challenge Enbridge approval
Monday, October 5, 2015 Another day down at the Federal Court of Appeal in Vancouver and just like that we are half way through the six day Enbridge hearing. Today…
Time travel with the National Energy Board – Where 15 months can feel like years
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,…
Want to help protect our environment? Have your say on how you can have a say
Thursday, May 21, 2015 Meaningful public participation is a backbone of environmental assessment. But the BC environmental assessment backbone is broken. Now is your chance to help fix it. Until…
Social licence: mob rule or democracy in action?
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 The term “social licence to operate” is used frequently by project proponents and in the media, but has recently attracted some controversy. However, In a context…
West Coast and NWI Launch North Coast Community Dialogue Session Series on LNG and Cumulative Impacts Management
Thursday, December 18, 2014 On December 11, West Coast Environmental Law, along with the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research (NWI), co-hosted the first of a series of community dialogue sessions…
Canada’s Enbridge decision: An annotated guide
Thursday, June 19, 2014 If you've read the federal government's June 17 press release about Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal, you might be wondering what it all means. Here's our quick…
Investors ask: Is the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline becoming the new Keystone?
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Investors are asking whether Kinder Morgan's Transmountain Pipeline could become the next Keystone, after Kinder Morgan’s statements about oil spills being good for the economy went…
Taseko Mines, what part of “No” don’t you understand?
Monday, March 31, 2014 Last month, the federal government rejected Taseko Mines’proposal to build the controversial New Prosperity Project. Again. But Taseko is going to court arguing that the environmental…
Widening (even further) the hole in federal fish protection: Canada’s proposed Fisheries Act Regulations
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 British Columbians are no strangers to environmental deregulation. The early aughts, which for decades prior were heralded as likely to usher in electric cars and other…
Dear President Obama: In Canada climate change affects none of our decisions
Friday, February 21, 2014 When U.S. President Obama met with Prime Minister Harper earlier this week, he highlighted the importance of considering climate change in key energy decisions, like the…