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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You may have heard of the Great Bear Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network, which is an inspiring project by coastal Indigenous nations and the federal and provincial government to protect vast swaths of ecologically rich ocean in the north and central coast of BC.

We made history at COP15 in 2022.

Together, we inspired a historic plan to stop nature loss once and for all: the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

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

On June 23, in the middle of what is expected to be the busiest cruise ship season ever on the west coast, Canada finally announced a

No matter where we come from, most of us want to care for the coast and ocean and the wildlife that call them home, and to leave a more abundant future for those to come.

“We are going to sue Big Oil,” noted journalist Avi Lewis told us. “This is an historic moment, and you are going to be able to tell everyone you were here when it began.”

Environmental racism is a widespread problem in Canada, affecting many Black, Indigenous and other racialized communities across the country.