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Opponents credit public, scientific and First Nations pushback

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

VANCOUVER, BC – Opinion leaders and decision-makers from across BC will come together the evening of Tuesday, February 26th to engage in a high level public dialogue about the challenge of managing the cumulative impacts of past, present and future human activities on BC’s ecosystems a

Topics: Climate and Energy, Lands & Forests

New mapping and analysis show gaping holes in conservation

For Immediate Release

Topics: Lands & Forests, Climate and Energy

Kinder Morgan proposal increases risk of major oil spill without adequate insurance, report warns

For Immediate Release 

Topics: Climate and Energy

VANCOUVER, B.C. ─ A coalition of four environmental groups will hold a press conference on January 24, at 10:00 a.m.

Topics: Climate and Energy

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Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

Massive bill before Parliament further undermines Canadian democracy and environment, groups say in open letter

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews, Indigenous Law

Vancouver.  Samuel Harrison and Pippa Feinstein, two law students with the University of Alberta Law School in Edmonton, Alberta, have won the Second ever Twitter Moot (a legal appeal argued entirely over Twitter).  The Twitter Moot, held today at 10 am PST/1pm EST, saw event Judges Michael Geist

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Topics: Climate and Energy, Canada's Environmental Reviews

Omnibus bill again hides big changes to environmental laws, subverting democracy, weakening protection of air, water, soil and ecosystems

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews, Climate and Energy

Vancouver.  West Coast Environmental Law today announced the teams selected to participate in its “World’s 2nd Twitter Moot” – a mock court case to be argued competitively over Twitter on November 20th.  The five teams selected have two students each from Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops), Un

Topics: Climate and Energy

Vancouver - Critics of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker proposal welcomed today’s announcement by BC’s Official Opposition that there must be a “made in BC” decision on this project.

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews, Climate and Energy

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A refinery in Kitimat is the latest attempt to build support for the Northern Gateway pipeline that has been fiercely opposed by First Nations, communities, and people across BC.

Topics: Climate and Energy

Committee’s science-based approach is sound, but forest reserves should remain off limits to logging say environmental lawyers

Topics: Lands & Forests

West Coast Environmental Law announces national Twitter debate

Topics: Climate and Energy

Latest Enbridge Oil Spill Proves Once Again the Risks of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Are Too Great for the Project to Be Approved

Topics: Climate and Energy, Indigenous Law

Federal environmental assessment law passed Monday night will turn a blind eye to the potential human health and environmental impacts of many proposed projects.

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

Movement to protect nature and democracy in Canada will continue to build

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

Hundreds of websites darken for Black Out Speak Out

VANCOUVER – No fewer than 500 businesses and organizations and thousands of individual Canadians are uniting in collective defence of nature and democracy today as part of the Black Out Speak Out campaign.

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

Groups agree that silence not an option as attacks on nature and democracy continue

BLACK OUT SPEAK OUT

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Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

Fisheries Act changes shaping up to be ‘give-away’ to big oil and mining companies

Topics: Canada's Environmental Reviews

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (March 29, 2012) - Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel at the West Coast Environmental Law Association issued the following statement in response to today’s budget, which included rollbacks of long-standing legal protections for the environment.

Topics: Climate and Energy, Canada's Environmental Reviews