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.

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This week, we were at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in support of seven youth who are suing the Ontario government over its weak climate target and plan. The youth are being represented by lawyers from Ecojustice and Stockwoods.

The Premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan are certainly not fans of Canadian’s efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas pollution (to say the least).

Three years after the provincial government committed to enacting legislation prioritizing biodiversity and ecosystem health, movement is finally taking shape with the release of the

On December 7, during the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, Canada’s federal government released its proposed Regulatory Framework for an Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap.

Rob Edward is a sməlqmíx community member & Lower Similkameen Indian Band (LSIB) tech specialist. He works with language and language translation for the sməlqmíx, the syilx people of the Similkameen Valley.

In the final instalment of our Indigenous Law in Language blog series, we continue to explore how we can bridge the languages of science and Indigenous law together. Dr. Rachel F. Holt works in conservation biology and land management. We sat down with Dr.

As interest in offshore oil and gas exploration is thankfully floundering in Canada, marine renewable energy is on the rise.

Federal Court decision reminds us all levels of government have a role to play in regulating plastic pollution  

Sign the Parliamentary petition urging the federal government to establish a new biodiversity accountability law.

On September 26, the British Columbia Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case of Gitxaała v.