On January 30, the Independent Expert Engineering Investigation and Review Panel appointed to investigate the August 4, 2014 breach of the Mount Polley Mine tailings storage facility (TSF) released its r
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.
The pile of lawsuits sitting on top of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines and Tankers Project keeps getting bigger, and this time the Province of British Columbia has been dragged into the mix.
It has been said that the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. So when I recently testified the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health about Canada’s Pest Control Products Act (PCPA), I chose to focus my submissions on what we’ve learned from our past work with farm workers about how the PCPA does and does n
“The right to speak is more precious than gold”. Members of the Wilderness Committee displayed these words proudly on the steps of the Supreme Court of BC as they prepared for a two-week hearing on a defamation claim by Taseko Mines Ltd.
The term “social licence to operate” (SLO) is used frequently by project proponents and in the media. What does it mean and why is it important? The phrase was originally coined by the mining industry about 15 year
To what extent does our society afford us a right to freedom of expression?
West Coast is excited to unveil our new and improved Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund (EDRF). For the last 25 years West Coast Environmental Law has offered environmental legal aid to British Columbians through the EDRF (our 20th Anniversary pu
[Update - January 2016 - The federal government has signaled that it intends to take over Marilyn's private prosecution - which could mean that they intend to pursue it or that they intend to stay it.