Last week (April 20th), the federal government (as represented by Todd Gerhart of the Department of Justice - DOJ) announced that it would lay charges against the fish farm company, Marine Harvest, as a result of a private prosecution laid against the company by Alexandra Morton. I’m not going to review the facts of the case, which have been se
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.
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Last Friday (April 16th), BC’s Ministry of Environment released a press release announcing the final Compliance and Enforcement Summary for 2009, which
I know that most of our readers are probably not Twitter-users. We at West Coast Environmental Law are pretty new to Twitter ourselves. If you have absolutely no interest in Twitter you might want to read another post. Here’s a <
UPDATE - APRIL 26, 2010 - See our new blog post and Facebook Group.
Last week, BC’s Minister of Forests and Range, Pat Bell, announced the introduction of a new Zero Net Deforestation Act. Minister Bell explained:
West Coast Environmental Law has been working with communities along the controversial proposed Enbridge Pipeline and oil tanker route to make sure that their views are fully considered in any government decision.
Over the past week West Coast Environmental Law has been crunching figures from the province’s Compliance and Enforcement Summaries.
As West Coast Environmental Law reported in a separate post, BC’s enforcement of environmental laws continues to drop. And, as I noted in that post, in addition to general job in enforcement there is also reason to be concerned abou
We are now 5 days into a stand-off between the Okanagan Indian Band and Tolko Industries at Browns Creek on the west side of Okanagan Lake. With Tolko in court today seeking an enforcement order to remove Elders, band members, supporters and Chiefs from Browns Creek, things are about to escalata further.