It’s budget season, and federal government departments are releasing reports on their spending for 2014-15 and projections for what they plan to spend in 2015-16.
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.
Last month, Executive Director Jessica Clogg and I traveled to Ft. St.
Last week’s heartbreaking oil spill in English Bay was a sobering reminder to us all about what is at risk in this beautiful part of the world, and in the Salish Sea in particular. It also made clear that ‘world leading’ spill response has a long way to go to before we can consider it effective.
Were you excited to read our take on the supposed visionary green budget proposed by the federal government earlier today?
[Update - noon, 1 April 2015: April Fools'! But it shouldn't be a joke to expect strong environmental laws from the Canadian Government. If you agree, click here to send a message to the Prime Minister.]
Today Bill 24, a new Societies Act, was introduced in the BC Legislature (government release here).
On March 04, 2015, Blueberry River First Nations filed a ground breaking lawsuit at the BC Supreme Court, suing the Province for breach of Treaty 8 due to the cumulative impacts of intensive industrial development on their territo
I recently traveled up to the Northwest of BC to help facilitate the second round of community dialogue sessions on LNG and cumulative impacts management co-hosted by West Coast Environmental Law and the
If you are an advocate for climate solutions, if you oppose tar sands pipelines and supertankers, or aspire to have a more balanced Canadian energy policy, you may have recently learned that the RCMP characterizes you as part of a harmful
In this era of heightened concerns about national security, we invite you to read the following open letter to Prime Minister Harper that makes a simple point: Our global atmosphere is “critical infrastructure” and disruption of it “undermines the security of Canada.” If you agree, join us in calling on the Prime Minister t