It was a very long way to travel to be turned away at the door.
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.
I’m excited to be heading to the Enbridge AGM in Calgary on May 8 on behalf of West Coast. I’ll be accompanying a diverse group of concerned community members from the BC North Coast and from Alberta, including commercial fishers, farmers, youth and representatives of the Wet’suwet’en Tsayu (Beaver) and Laksilyu (Small Frog) Clans, as well as
Earlier this year, the BC Legislature declared the Pacific Salmon to be BC’s official fish. Which is no doubt nice for the salmon. But even nicer would be real legal protection for the salmon. With the platforms
[Updated May 1, 2013 - Two separate people have suggested removing common terms from the word clouds so that words like "BC" and "government" don't overshadow the other words used. We agree.
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
Tools and resources that raise environmental issues in the context of an election are always of interest over here at the West Coast Environmental Law Association. So we thought we’d direct our readers to two new tools.
Vote Environment 2013
Well, the writ’s been dropped and this Environmental Law Alert post is brought to you by the West Coast Environmental Law Association, sponsor under the Elections Act. You’ll notice a message to that effect on the bottom of all posts for the coming weeks.
A snow storm that blew through central Canada made this year’s March 19 Ottawa’s snowiest on record. But there was more than weather to distinguish this as a historic date.
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