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.

On Greenwashing Canada’s Enviro-Assessment Laws

Last Tuesday (April 2nd), the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) invited the public to give input on whether an environmental assessment should be conducted for a proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Exp

Privatizing Salmon Protection: The Failure of the Riparian Areas Regulation

This week and next week seem to be the official launch of the Environmental Law Centre’s Maintaining Supernatural BC for our Children. On Tuesday I joined ELC Legal Director, Calvin Sandborn, and another contributo

Land Use Planning for Nature, Climate and Communities

In December 2012 the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria published a collection of environmental law reform proposals, with contributions from a variety of leading environmental lawyers, which inc

Jessica Clogg explains Bill C-45, First Nations Rights, FIPA

This interview was originally published by Digital Journal and was written by Grace C. Visconti.

We can’t just roll-over when it comes to the government’s roll-over forest plans

Here’s what the government says it’s doing through amendments to BC’s Forest Act which it introduced last Wednesday (Feb 20th):

From Oolichan to Enbridge: Getting to the Heart of Cumulative Impacts Management in the Northwest

A guest blog post from Gerald Amos, Headwaters Initiative

The Smoking Gun: Who was the real author of the 2012 omnibus bills?

Kudos to Greenpeace Canada for finding something of a smoking gun exposing the role of the oil and gas industry in the gutting of Canada’s environmental laws. Greenpeace has released a letter from the E

Raising your voice for the Enbridge JRP (in Victoria, Vancouver and Kelowna)

Well, tomorrow (January 4th) the Enbridge Joint Review Panel arrives in Victoria. It’s in Vancouver on January 14th, and in Kelowna on the 28th. So this is a big month in the southern part of our province for those concerned about the Enbridge Pipeline and Tanker Project.