Empowering communities, protecting ecosystems
Empowering communities, protecting ecosystems
January 7, 2015 Victoria, BC – In early December, the ELC filed a submission to the Mount Polley Independent Expert Engineering Investigation and Review Panel entitled, “Not an Act of God.” Written by ELC Intensive Stream students under the supervision…
Gas wells and pipelines already surround a number of schools in northeast BC. Many of the wells contain harmful pollutants, including potentially lethal sour gas. This problem will become more critical as LNG expansion creates thousands of new gas wells…
Submissions of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, The SOS Marine Conservation Foundation, Watershed Watch Salmon Society, the David Suzuki Foundation and the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre on the draft Aquaculture Activities Regulation (AAR).
Letter requesting an investigation into the provincial government’s refusal to release documents related to the Mount Polley tailings dam collapse. Click here for more information.
ELC student Harrison Porter prepared this memo on the issue of the spread of fatal diseases from domestic sheep to wild bighorn sheep for the BC Wildlife Federation.
Outbreaks of exotic or virulent fish disease at fish farms may spread to wild fish and threaten wild salmon stocks. Yet the government fails to adequately report to the public about fish farm outbreaks. Government refuses to publicly report where…
Deborah Curran, Hakai Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainability The British Columbia Legislature gave third and final reading, without any amendments, to Bill 18 – 2014, BC’s new Water Sustainability Act (“the Act”), on April 29 2014. This Bill is the long…
Pipeline companies need to acquire land use rights from affected landowners before beginning construction, and their practices are subject to federal regulation by the National Energy Board (NEB). However, the current regulatory processes overseen by the NEB are manifestly unfair…
Prepared for the Canadian Cancer Society, BC and Yukon Division, Regulating Exposure to Radon Gas in BC Homes: A Four Pillar Approach looks into laws around the world that regulate radon gas and what a BC system of regulation might entail.
As global demand for seaweed expands, a new commercial seaweed harvesting industry is emerging on Vancouver Island. This ELC report by student Piet Brusse warns that this harvest could have serious impacts on fisheries and sensitive coastal ecosystems if government oversight…
Letter asking the federal and BC Ministers of Environment to establish a Strategic Economic and Environmental Assessment of proposed massive new BC LNG developments. Acting for the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research, the ELC proposes a careful examination of a dozen…
Backgrounder for the ELC Associates teleconference on Hydraulic Fracturing in BC and Natural Resource Damage Assessments (May 13, 2013)
