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Citizens to Ottawa: We will not be shut out of environmental decisions

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

New mini-documentary series highlights what is at stake if rollbacks to Canada’s environmental laws continue in Bill C-45

 

Environmental groups, First Nations join in opposition to omnibus Bill C-45

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Massive bill before Parliament further undermines Canadian democracy and environment, groups say in open letter

TORONTO –First Nations and environmental, recreation and grassroots groups supported by more than half a million Canadianstoday issued an open letter opposing the federal government’s controversial second omnibus bill, C-45, as the proposed legislation enters final rounds of debate in Parliament this week.

CEAA 2012 – On the Ground

7 November, 2012

Jay Nelson has a unique perspective on the new Canadian Environmental Assessment act, 2012 (CEAA 2012); as the lawyer for the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG) in the current environmental assessment of the controversial New Prosperity mine project at Fish Lake (Teztan Biny), he has been grappling with how CEAA 2012 works on the ground.  In a recent webinar Jay shared the opportunities and challenges posed by CEAA 2012. 

Jay Nelson has a unique perspective on the new Canadian Environmental Assessment act, 2012 (CEAA 2012).  Jay has been representing the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG) in the current environmental assessment (EA) of the controversial New Prosperity mine project at Fish Lake (Teztan Biny) in BC’s Chilcotin Region, and so has been grappling with how CEAA 2012 works on the ground.

Major environmental groups oppose damaging federal omnibus Bill C-45

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Omnibus bill again hides big changes to environmental laws, subverting democracy, weakening protection of air, water, soil and ecosystems

TORONTO, ON AND VANCOUVER, BC-- Once again, the federal government is proposing to make significant changes to environmental legislation without proper democratic debate, according to many of Canada’s leading environmental organizations.

Instead, these changes are contained in a sweeping omnibus budget bill.

New Prosperity News – Comment by September 28th!

24 September, 2012

On September 14th, the federal Review Panel conducting the New Prosperity environmental assessment released three documents. Two describe the approach that the Panel proposes to use for “Confidentiality” and for the panel’s Hearing Procedures, respectively, and invites the public to comment on these procedures.

The third is the application form for anyone interested in participating in the Panel’s hearings as an “interested party.”

For all of these documents the deadline (for comments or for applying to be an interested party) is this Friday, SEPTEMBER 28th, 2012. The draft documents and the application form can be found here, and below we list their key points and our key concerns with each.

It has been some time since we updated our readers on where things are at with Taseko Mine Ltd.’s New Prosperity gold-copper mine proposal and the

Douglas Channel Islands: Enbridge erases, Lori Waters replaces

17 September, 2012

One Sunday morning, Lori Waters received an intriguing link to the “Route Safety” animation videos for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. As one of many British Columbians opposed to the pipeline and to any lifting of the tanker ban along our coast, she watched Enbridge’s animations with interest.  But as a scientific illustrator and animator, she created a series of illustrations demonstrating why Enbridge's animations were wrong.  And they went viral.  Lori (in a guest post) tells us the story.

Thank you to Lori Waters for the following guest environmental law alert post. 

One Sunday morning, I received an intriguing link to the “Route Safety” animation videos for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. As one of many British Columbians opposed to the pipeline  and to any lifting of the tanker ban along our coast, I watched Enbridge’s animations with interest.

Enbridge tankers and pipelines - Pledge for “Made In BC” Decision Welcomed by Pipeline and Tanker Critics

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Vancouver - Critics of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker proposal welcomed today’s announcement by BC’s Official Opposition that there must be a “made in BC” decision on this project.

The provincial Opposition said today that BC should go its own way in reviewing the Enbridge proposal and committed to crafting a tailored assessment process, rather than using the standard BC Environmental Assessment Act approach.

5 rules for a science-based decision on the Enbridge Pipelines

13 August, 2012

Prime Minister Harper was in Vancouver on August 7 and took the opportunity to tell Canadians that any decision on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project would be made through an “independent process” and on the basis of science, not politics. The Prime Minister is not technically correct in implying that his cabinet will not be “picking and choosing particular projects”.  However, if Prime Minister Harper is serious about a science-based decision on pipelines – even if Cabinet makes the ultimate decision – here are 5 rules that we think need to be in place:

Prime Minister Harper was in Vancouver on August 7 and took the opportunity to tell Canadians that any decision on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project would be made through an “independent process” and on the basis of science, not politics.

Enbridge foes: Schedule your statement so you don’t get Calgaried

1 August, 2012

All right, maybe Calgary is not a verb.  But if you’re among the 4000+ Canadians who have registered to make an oral presentation to the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel (JRP) that’s considering the controversial Enbridge Pipelines and Tankers Project, and you haven’t scheduled a time to be heard, then you’d better jump to it.  Calgarians who were registered to speak found out the hard way last week – if you snooze your public hearing gets cancelled. And the thing is - it's not their fault.  They were told that they would be contacted when it was time to schedule a time, and in our view a generic email entitled "Updated Hearing Schedule" just doesn't cut it.  

All right, maybe Calgary is not a verb.  But if you’re among the 4000+ Canadians who have registered to make an oral presentation to the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel (JRP) that’s considering the controversial Enbridge Pipelines and Tankers Project, and you haven’t scheduled a time to be heard, then you’d better jump to it.  Calgarians who were registered to speak found out the hard way – if you snooze your public hearing gets cancelled. 

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