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.
Governments and businesses rely heavily on the advice of professionals on a wide range of environmental, resource management and land use planning decisions.
If you've read the federal government's June 17 press release about Enbridge's pipelines and tankers proposal (AKA Northern Gateway), you might be wondering what it all means. Here's our quick take on it. The presentation below takes about 7 minutes and you can start by pressing the play button in the bottom left corner of the frame.
Poll after poll say that British Columbians favour strong environmental laws – laws that don’t trade our environment off against short-term economic gains.
According to the BC Government, the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic – a direct result of climate change – cost British Columbia billions in lost timber value alone – not counting environmental and other damages.
That was the question posed by the investor website seekingalpha.com following
[Updated 30 May 2014 - After the close of public consultations]
Say “no” to increased corporate control of our forests
Salish Sea. Photo credit: Flickr user fletcherjcm
The provincial government’s current “Area Based Forest Tenure Consultation”, which ends on May 30, 2014 is about large-scale logging interests an
New regulations under the Fisheries Act allow Canada’s Fisheries and Environment Ministers to give blanket authorization to cause pollution in fish habitat in a range of circumstances, including pollution from fish farm companies seeking to control “pests” or invasive species. These regulations are the latest in a series of changes to Canada’s