The current session of the BC Legislature has kept us quite busy. While we’ve had occasion to discuss several bills in our Environmental Law Alert, we haven’t even mentioned a host of others that we are following with interest. This session, the BC government has introduced a whole series of amendments and new statutes with environmental impli
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.
Following hot on the heels of the controversial Park Amendment Act (Bill 4), the BC government has introduced another bill that would open up some of the province’s most publicly valuable lands – in this case, its farmlands – to industrial development.
Last month, the federal government rejected Taseko Mines’proposal to build the controversial New Prosperity Project. For a second time. But Taseko is going to court arguing that the environmental assessment pr
[Update 30 May 2014 - The BC government passed Bill 24 yesterday (May 29th), after forcing closure. Thank you so much to everyone who wrote - either using our action form or on your own - to tell the government that this Bill did not protect agricultural land. We have removed the Action form at the end of this post. For more informati
Click here to send a letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Prime Minister Stephen
Update, 29 July 2014: The Regulations Establishing Conditions for Making Regulations Under Subsection 36(5.2) of the Fisheries Act were brought into force and published in April, 2014.
The BC Government introduced its long-promised Water Sustainability Act in the BC Legislature on Tuesday. As we said when the gover
Some of our readers may have missed Twitter Moot 2014, held on Friday, February 28th, in Victoria, Edmonton, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Halifax – as well as globally on Twitter. If you missed it and are kicking yourself, you can re-live all the action on our Twitter Moot feed.
With the BC Legislature’s Spring Session in full swing, there are lots of new, proposed laws to read and comment on, and we’ve been drawing your attention to legislation that we view as problematic (related to Parks
Can a private resort company own a lake? If so, are the fish in the lake private or public? And can the resort keep the public from fishing in that lake? These critical questions are central to a David vs.