For me one of the most interesting observations in West Coast Environmental Law’s “Emerging Solutions on Clean, Green Power” Dialogue came from former Hupacasath Chief,
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This morning Chief Roland Willson and the entire Council of the West Moberly First Nations, from Northeast BC, walked into a courtroom in Victoria to ask a judge of the BC Supreme Court to
For some time West Coast Environmental Law has been advocating for the BC government to change the way it manages forests to recognize the reality of climate change. These efforts have come together in a
Alexandra Morton’s constitutional challenge to BC’s fish farm laws just keeps getting better. Justice Hinkson today has effectively created a moratorium on new fish farms and fish farm expansion in BC for
This morning the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in MiningWatch Canada v.
You may have heard that the province is in the process of consulting British Columbians about how cosmetic pesticides should be regulated. “Cosmetic” – as in, “used primarily to look good.” The classic example includes using chemicals to maintain the perf
Close to 180 participants from all sides of BC’s heated debate about the future of renewable electricity generation gathered in Vancouver earlier this week at West Coast Environmental Law’s Dialogue on Emerging Solutions for Clean, Green Power in BC.
West Coast is not the only one blogging as a way to discuss environmental law. The BC government has launched its LivingWaterSmart blog as a key tool for consulting on the development of a new Water Act.
A Residential Tenancy Branch decision, released on December 28th, 2009, has ordered a New Westminster landlord to pay $11,950 to the residents of two apartments for illegally spraying pesticides in their apartment building.
Well everyone else had one, and we just felt left out…