Tuesday night (February 4th) the City of Chilliwack passed a bylaw intended to allow the development of a
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- proposed changes to the law that will weaken, or strengthen, environmental protection;
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- emerging legal strategies that could be used to protect our environment.
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The government is currently consulting on bylaws that would continue to allow cosmetic pesticide use, as long as commercial lawn care companies or other licensed applicators apply the pesticides. British Columbians have repeatedly called for a ban on pesticides used for cosmetic purposes, and the government needs to hear that message again.
Local government elections should be about communities discussing their problems, and electing people who will address those problems. Making a home-made lawn-sign or printing a few leaflets should be a basic right.
Recently the BC Water and Waste Association (BCWWA) posted a video of a short talk that West Coast Staff Lawyer, Deborah Carlson, gave last June to their Climate Change Committee. The talk, which is intended to be a firs
[Update - 4 Jul 2013 - Unfortunately the bee deaths in 2012 were apparently not a one time event, with reports that tens of millions of honey bees have died this summer in one town in Ontario, apparently due to exposure to neonicotinoid pesti
A Guest Post by Nazanine Parent, cancer survivor and Canadian Cancer Society BC and Yukon volunteer. The West Coast Environmental Law Association has been working closely with t
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
When is a municipality not a municipality?
When no one lives there.
(silence)
On Wednesday, Feb 20th, the Provincial Government issued a press release stating (among other things) that it was introducing changes to BC’s Integrated Pest Management Act (hat tip to Kathryn Seeley at the Canadian Cancer Society for directin
A new resource from West Coast Environmental Law