The Lemon Creek jet spill and emergency release of data
Thursday, August 29, 2013 I can’t begin to imagine what it must be like to have your drinking water, and your entire community, contaminated with jet fuel. So when some…
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Lack of footnotes costs fish farm activist $75,000
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 On Monday, July 22nd the BC Court of Appeal ordered well-known anti- fish farm activist Don Staniford to pay $75,000 in damages because the mock cigarette…
Lessons from a fish farm defamation lawsuit
Friday, October 12, 2012 Congratulations to Don Staniford – and his lawyer, David Sutherland – who, last month, defeated a lawsuit brought against him by fish farm giant, Mainstream Canada…
Burns Bog, Strathcona Park cases ask: who owns BC’s protected areas?
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 Two legal cases are underway, funded by West Coast Environmental Law, argue that the government has a responsibility to manage protected areas for the benefit of…
No new fish farms for 10 months – BC Supreme Court
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Alexandra Morton’s constitutional challenge to BC’s fish farm laws just keeps getting better. Justice Hinkson today has effectively created a moratoriu...
Pesticide-sprayed tenants bite landlord
Monday, January 4, 2010 A Residential Tenancy Branch decision, released on December 28th, 2009, has ordered a New Westminster landlord to pay $11,950 to the residents of two apartments for…