On September 7th the Ministry of Environment released its long awaited “Report on Engagement” - analysis of the comments during its public consultations on plans to “modernize” the Water Act. In its
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On August 22nd, according to an article in the Lake Cowichan Gazette, BC’s Conservation Officer Service teamed up with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the RCMP to conduct a spot-inspection of sports fishers near Cowichan Bay.
The Jumbo Resort in the Kootenays will negatively impact Grizzlies, according to a Grizzly biologist, Dr. Michael Proctor. Dr.
Rabble.ca has just published the following opinion piece from West Coast Environmental Law's Josh Paterson, which we reproduce below for our readers.
Looking for a tasty morsel of environmental law news? Some of the stories that caught our eye over the past week or so include:
Yesterday the Ministry of Environment released its 1st Quarter Compliance and Enforcement Report for 2010. Ordinarily this would not be news (there are 4 of them a year, after all), but this one caught my eye – primarily because we’d given th
Wouldn’t you know it – I go away on holiday for a week and all kinds of stories happen and I’m not there to write them up for the Environmental Law Alert Blog. Here are a handful of stories that were interesting – relating either to environment or law, or both – which I might have written posts about if I’d been here. Seriously though – let me
UPDATE - FEBRUARY 1ST, 2011 - The Friends of Davie Bay's legal challenge goes to court in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver this morning.
A guest post by Richard Overstall