Time for B.C. to regulate industry in the public’s interest
As the government relied increasingly on outside professionals, it gutted the ranks of public servants...
Many of the largest environmental battles in Canada’s history have been fought in front of a judge and gavel. Today, with climate change, evolving recognition of Indigenous rights and title, growing social inequity and urgent ecological issues setting the tenor of our environmental conversations, the impacts of decisions made in the legal realm are more visible than ever. Environmental laws also dictate how we make decisions about major projects, such as pipelines, mines and hydro dams. We track how environmental laws shape public conversations.
As the government relied increasingly on outside professionals, it gutted the ranks of public servants...
Professional reliance report outlines to government how to restore public trust
The Tsilhqot’in Nation is back in court this week in another effort to stop Taseko...
For the last decade B.C.’s professional reliance system has outsourced the responsibility for environmental monitoring...
After almost three decades of planning, the fate of a 6000-bed luxury ski resort in...
After more than two years and a nationwide public engagement effort, critics say Justin Trudeau’s...
Caribou, and other endangered and threatened species, are not actually legally protected in British Columbia...
In 2015, a pipeline was designed to cut through a sensitive wetland in B.C. The...
Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy...
It was not a happy week for BC Hydro’s Site C dam project in northeast B.C. First, the Alaska Highway News revealed that WorkSafeBC had...
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