This Earth Day we’d like to celebrate the remarkable work of Divest Victoria and their campaign – with help from our Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund (EDRF) – to allow communities acro
Environmental Law Alert Blog
Through our Environmental Law Alert blog, West Coast keeps you up to date on the latest developments and issues in environmental law. This includes:
- proposed changes to the law that will weaken, or strengthen, environmental protection;
- stories and situations where existing environmental laws are failing to protect the environment; and
- emerging legal strategies that could be used to protect our environment.
If you have an environmental story that we should hear about, please e-mail Andrew Gage. We welcome your comments on any of the posts to this blog – but please keep in mind our policies on comments.
According to pipeline supporters and cheerleaders, one of the primary rationales for building pipelines to tidewater – Canada’s east or west coast – is to maximize the price that Canadians can get for tar sands oil by reaching world markets. It has been repeated so many times that it has become something of dilbit dogma.
To the Canadian government: Consider all greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas projects
It’s amazing how invisible climate change can be – how we feel immune from the consequences of what seems like a vague, global challenge. We think that climate change only occurs in far off climate-vulnerable nations.
The empty NEB hearing room was a stark contrast to the public protesting outside. Photos by Eugene Kung.
On Thursday, February 4, 2016, representatives from West Coast Environmental Law were honoured to be witnesses as the B.C.
The BC government went to the Paris climate talks with the recommendations of a blue-ribbon Climate Leadership Team in hand. Now it wants to hear from you – should they be implemented?
Earlier this month TransCanada announced that it would be claiming compensation under the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for U.S.
Are you excited, as I am, that Canada’s new government has promised that Canada will do “its fair share” to fight climate change? Or perhaps a little skeptical, given the failure of past governments to live up to their climate pledges?
West Coast has previously suggested that, in spite of the Province of British Columbia’s “tough talk” on oil pipelines, it has been trying to pass the decision-making buck to the federal government’s National Energy Board (N