The Conservative Party election promise, in 2008, to bring in a Cap and Trade system to tackle climate change has recently been in the news. But we’ve not heard any mention about another important energy-related
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.
If you’ve been watching Parliament in the past week or two you may have just heard mention of the phrase “carbon tax.” We’d be delighted if this meant that there was an intelligent debate going on in Parliament about how to address climate change, but unfortunately it’s on
It has been some time since we updated our readers on where things are at
Thank you to Lori Waters for the following guest environmental law alert post.
West Coast Environmental Law recently submitted our recommendations on improving BC’s carbon tax to the BC Carbon Tax Review Committee, including recommendations to make the application of the tax more comprehensive, and on October
[Update, 30 April 2014 - The Vancouver Sun has revealed that BC fish farm companies received $4.1 million in compensation for fish destroyed in 2012:
Prime Minister Harper was in Vancouver on August 7 and took the opportunity to tell Canadians that any decision on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project would be made through an “independent process” and on the bas
All right, maybe Calgary is not a verb. But if you’re among the 4000+ Canadians who have registered to make an oral presentation to the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel (JRP) that’s considering the controversial Enbridge Pipelines and Tankers Project, and you haven’t s
Today (July 27th) Premier Christy Clark walked out of the Council of the Federation meetings, being held between Canada’s Premiers in Halifax, vowing that she would not discuss a National Energy Strategy until Alberta agre
Imagine that your local stream is being polluted by a corporation. Imagine that corporation is one of the very small number of polluters actually charged with violating the Environmental Management Act.