The problem with exempting major projects from environmental assessment
The province’s little-known Environmental Assessment Office has broad discretionary powers, including the authority to select...
Many of the largest environmental battles in Canada’s history have been fought in front of a judge and gavel. From the Canadian constitution and international commitments to local bylaws, environmental law is shaping the future of Canada’s wilderness, oceans, suburbs, farmland and cities.
Environmental law is penetrating into the public conversation more now than any other time in living memory. But it can seem dense. (Let’s be honest: it is dense.) Never fear — we bring you dynamic legal experts, thoughtful advocates and Indigenous scholars and knowledge-keepers to make sense of Canada’s changing legal landscape.
The province’s little-known Environmental Assessment Office has broad discretionary powers, including the authority to select...
Landowners once promised a fair share for hosting oil and gas infrastructure on their properties...
Experts examine subterranean snot, philosophize about how to warn future civilizations away from buried arsenic...
Four years after the Mount Polley mine first spilled contaminated waste into a once-cherished body...
Province takes first steps to improve system that makes industry consultants responsible for environmental monitoring
With the reappearance of gold mines in the province comes an all-too-familiar playbook: international extractive...
Can Canada build its new oil pipeline to the West Coast and meet its legal...
As of today, the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population numbers only 75. In addition...
Canada has an important issue that British land-owners and ramblers never faced — the question...
This is an excerpt from the new book, Memory, published October 1, 2018 by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC. Some years...
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