VANCOUVER, BC – J. Michael Fay, renowned Wildlife Conservation Society scientist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, is coming to Vancouver this Monday, April 15th, as part of...
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12 April, 2013
25 February, 2013
VANCOUVER, BC – Opinion leaders and decision-makers from across BC will come together the evening of Tuesday, February 26th to engage in a high level public dialogue about the...
21 February, 2013
New mapping and analysis show gaping holes in conservation
For Immediate Release
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Two reports released today show...
24 January, 2013
Kinder Morgan proposal increases risk of major oil spill without adequate insurance, report warns
For Immediate...
23 January, 2013
VANCOUVER, B.C. ─ A coalition of four environmental groups will hold a press conference on January 24, at 10:00 a.m. to announce the release of Financial Liability for Kinder Morgan, a report that...
28 November, 2012
21 November, 2012
Massive bill before Parliament further undermines Canadian democracy and environment, groups say in open letter
TORONTO –First Nations and environmental, recreation and grassroots...
20 November, 2012
Vancouver. Samuel Harrison and Pippa Feinstein, two law students with the University of Alberta Law School in Edmonton, Alberta, have won the Second ever Twitter Moot (a legal appeal argued...
19 October, 2012
18 October, 2012
Omnibus bill again hides big changes to environmental laws, subverting democracy, weakening protection of air, water, soil and ecosystems
TORONTO, ON AND...
5 October, 2012
Vancouver. West Coast Environmental Law today announced the teams selected to participate in its “World’s 2nd Twitter Moot” – a mock court case to be argued...
22 August, 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...
17 August, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A refinery in Kitimat is the latest attempt to build support for the Northern Gateway pipeline that has been fiercely opposed by First Nations,...
15 August, 2012
Committee’s science-based approach is sound, but forest reserves should remain off limits to logging say environmental lawyers
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (...
13 August, 2012
West Coast Environmental Law announces national Twitter debate
Vancouver. West Coast Environmental Law is inviting law students from...
30 July, 2012
Latest Enbridge Oil Spill Proves Once Again the Risks of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Are Too Great for the Project to Be Approved
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - In the...
20 June, 2012
Federal environmental assessment law passed Monday night will turn a blind eye to the potential human health and environmental impacts of many proposed projects.
...
19 June, 2012
Movement to protect nature and democracy in Canada will continue to build
Late last night, our elected Members of Parliament passed Bill C-38,...
4 June, 2012
Hundreds of websites darken for Black Out Speak Out
VANCOUVER – No fewer than 500 businesses and organizations and thousands of individual Canadians are...
24 May, 2012
Groups agree that silence not an option as attacks on nature and democracy continue
BLACK OUT SPEAK OUT
Toronto, ON – Every day, more Canadians and...
6 May, 2012
...
24 April, 2012
Fisheries Act changes shaping up to be ‘give-away’ to big oil and mining companies
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (April 24, 2012) --Today’s...
29 March, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (March 29, 2012) - Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel at the West Coast Environmental Law Association issued the following statement in response to...
28 March, 2012
13 March, 2012
(Ottawa) Conservative MPs on the Committee reviewing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) have set out recommendations that follow the party line to further gut the federal...
9 March, 2012
Plans to roll back federal environmental reviews are reckless say environmental lawyers
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (March 9, 2012) - Jessica Clogg, Executive...
29 February, 2012
Weak environmental laws jeopardize public health and safety and the integrity of First Nations consultation
VANCOUVER, BC and OTTAWA, ON (February 29, 2012)...
21 February, 2012
Vancouver. Nicole Petersen and Emelia Baack, two law students with Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, have won the World’s First Twitter Moot (a legal appeal argued entirely...
20 February, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (February 20, 2012) – Leading public health physicians, environmental lawyers and academics warned today against haphazard federal attempts to undermine...
14 February, 2012
Ottawa. Yana Banzen and Kowlasar Misir, two students at the University of Ottawa’s Law School, are gearing up to participate in the world’s first ever Twitter...
14 February, 2012
Halifax. Michele Charles and Kristen Balcom, two students at the University of Dalhousie’s Schulich Law School, are hard at work preparing for the world’s first ever...
14 February, 2012
Toronto. Nicole Petersen and Emelia Baack, two students at the University of York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, gearing up to participate in the world’s first ever ...
14 February, 2012
Victoria. Matthew Nefstead and Jenn Cameron, two students at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law, are gearing up to participate in the world’s first ever...
14 February, 2012
Vancouver. Hamish Stewart and Matthew Kalkman, two students at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law, are putting the finishing touches on their written legal arguments...
25 January, 2012
Vancouver. With four weeks to go until the World’s first-ever legal appeal argued over Twitter, the event’s host, West Coast Environmental Law, has announced that noted lawyer...
18 January, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (January 18, 2012) - Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel at West Coast Environmental Law issued the...
9 January, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Jan. 9, 2012) - A poll released today by BC environmental groups shows that almost 75 percent of British Columbians are worried about foreign investment in Canadian...
7 January, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel at West Coast Environmental Law, made the following comments in response...
5 January, 2012
VANCOUVER – One of Canada’s oldest environmental law organisations responds to attack ads linked to a top oil...
13 December, 2011
VANCOUVER. On Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 10am PST (1pm EST), West Coast Environmental Law will be hosting the world's first ever Twitter Moot. Moot Courts – a simulated court...
29 November, 2011
Ottawa/Vancouver - Environmental groups across Canada are expressing shock over the abrupt termination of the Parliamentary review of the Canadian Environmental...
21 November, 2011
VANCOUVER - The Honourable Mr. Justice Kelen of the Federal Court of Canada has ordered Health Canada to take a second look at the impacts on amphibians of Glyphosate-based pesticides – one...
17 November, 2011
VANCOUVER - Josh Paterson, staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law Association, made the following statement ...
17 November, 2011
Vancouver. West Coast Environmental Law, a non-profit environmental law organization, today released a report – ...
19 October, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. - Taseko’s revised proposal for a Fish Lake gold and copper mine would be even more of “an environmental disaster” than...
29 July, 2011
Vancouver. The Ministry of Environment today launched a new on-line database which will allow members of the public to “make it easier for British Columbians to keep track of the people,...
21 June, 2011
Groups Petition Auditor General’s Office for Answers
Ottawa, ON – Today Environmental Defence, West Coast Environmental Law Association and L'...
8 June, 2011
Official Opposition’s first policy announcement is a bid to protect Pacific coast from oil tankers spills
June 8, 2011 (Vancouver, BC) - On World Oceans Day, groups...
28 April, 2011
Victoria, B.C. — Just days before the federal election, new polling results indicate 78.9 per cent of British Columbians support a ban on oil tanker traffic in B.C.’s inside coastal...
22 March, 2011
Alliance of five First Nations attend BMO AGM to dissuade bank from backing project that would harm rivers
For immediate release
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21 March, 2011
Minister Kent says Federal Review Panel to be re-appointed for environmental assessment of major project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Canada’s...
24 February, 2011
For immediate release:
Campbell off-side with 80% of British Columbians in bid to support big oil in last days as Premier.
Wilderness Tourism Association, Friends...
16 February, 2011
Dogwood Initiative, Forest Ethics, West Coast Environmental Law Association, Living Oceans Society.
VICTORIA – Vancouver Liberal Member of Parliament Joyce Murray announced this...
4 February, 2011
Vancouver, BC - Calvin Sandborn has been awarded the Dr. Andrew Thompson Award by West Coast Environmental Law for his contribution to environmental protection and...
2 February, 2011
What:
West Coast Environmental Law is presenting the Dr. Andrew Thompson award to an environmental lawyer who has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to environmental...
6 January, 2011
District of Central Saanich repeals bylaw, pays court costs for neighbourhood group
Central Saanich: The Mount Newton Neighborhood...
16 December, 2010
“Our lands and waters are not for sale, not at any price.”
Nadleh Whut’en, Dakelh territories (BC) – The Yinka Dene Alliance, a...
14 December, 2010
For Immediate Release
Vancouver - Environmental groups are once again applauding MPs who are taking the necessary steps to secure a permanent tanker ban on...
7 December, 2010
For immediate release: December 7, 2010
Environmental groups praise support for today's vote...
30 November, 2010
For Immediate Release: November 30, 2010
Delegation says oil tankers threaten coastal economies and communities.
Ottawa...
30 November, 2010
Pour diffusion immédiate : Le 30 novembre 2010
L’appel à l'interdiction de pétroliers sur la côte nord du Pacifique s'intensifie : les...
25 October, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Vancouver. The lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law are concerned that BC’s new Ministry of Natural Resource Operations...
1 October, 2010
Vancouver BC—On Friday afternoon, the Chiefs of the First Nations Summit of BC, representing a majority of First Nations and Tribal Councils in BC, stated that the ...
2 September, 2010
Vancouver, BC—Twelve environmental groups are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to save Fish Lake, home to 80,000 rainbow trout and sacred to the Tsilhqot’in First Nations. The...
8 July, 2010
Vancouver, BC—Senate National Finance Committee heeds objections from conservation groups and votes to cut sections from federal budget that would severely weaken environmental...
21 June, 2010
Announcement brings B.C. one step closer to a legislated ban
For Immediate Release
June 21, 2010 (Vancouver, B.C.) – Environmental...
1 June, 2010
Vancouver, BC—Proposed Budget bill allowed to pass House of Commons by MPs seeking to avoid an election contains buried sections that dangerously rewrite environmental assessment...
10 May, 2010
Vancouver, BC — Proposed Budget bill contains buried provisions that rewrite environmental assessment laws and would allow dangerous projects to go ahead virtually unchecked,...
29 April, 2010
But BC must work with British Columbians to refine its approach if this potential is to be met.
Vancouver - Integrated resource planning to meet BC...
20 April, 2010
Vancouver - The provincial government’s decision to move ahead on the Site C dam is irresponsible given the massive environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the proposed...
16 April, 2010
Vancouver, BC--New B.C. guidelines for forest carbon offsets are “fake climate change action” and will fail to reduce carbon emissions quickly or protect vulnerable ecosystems...
31 March, 2010
Award-winners used Forest Stewardship...
24 March, 2010
Vancouver/Coast Salish Territory - Several First Nations peoples on the Central and North Pacific Coast and Haida Gwaii issued a Declaration this week banning Tar Sands crude oil...
2 March, 2010
Victoria. The announcement, in BC Budget 2010/11, of $69 million for justice and policing operations ignores the virtual collapse of the enforcement of BC’s...
1 February, 2010
VICTORIA – This morning Chief Roland Willson and the entire Council of the West Moberly First Nations will walk into the Courthouse in Victoria, BC to ask the BC Supreme Court to overturn...
28 January, 2010
New report and accompanying letter signed by top international scientists and environmental thinkers urges government to integrate nature conservation into provincial climate action strategy....
6 January, 2010
Media Advisory
WHAT:
“Emerging Solutions for Clean Green Power in BC” a dialogue on concrete legal and policy solutions to advance truly clean, green...
17 December, 2009
Several environmental organizations today released a blueprint for improving the planning and development of renewable electricity projects in British Columbia. The recommendations, authored by...
9 December, 2009
Vancouver - For the past 20 years the West Coast Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund (EDRF) has provided legal support to British Columbians seeking to protect their environment. During this...
4 December, 2009
Vancouver – The months of opposition and controversy that have dogged federal government plans to conduct an environmental assessment and regulatory review the Enbridge Northern Gateway...
22 September, 2009
Vancouver - Lawyers from West Coast Environmental Law today wrote to Sheila Fraser, the Auditor General of Canada, to ask her to investigate the Prime Minister’s decision to use Green...
17 August, 2009
VANCOUVER – A coalition of community and conservation groups has called on Ottawa to establish a full public inquiry to look into the far-reaching effects of the Enbridge Northern Gateway...