Category Archives : Sustainable Communities

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Gas Control: Closing Gaps in How We Manage Common Appliances with GHG Gases

Filed in: Climate Change and Energy Equity Healthy Watersheds and Airsheds Law reform National Pollution Province-wide Sustainable Communities | Environmental law | by

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are synthetic gases that are primarily used for refrigerants, air conditioning, and heat pumps. They’re also found in foams, aerosols, fire protection and solvents. Originally developed as a substitute for other gases that were depleting the ozone, HFCs >

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Cleaning up Coles Bay and the BC Coast: The Urgent Need for a Federal Action to Address Indigenous Shellfish Issues

Filed in: Coastal Environmental Justice Indigenous Resilient Coast Sustainable Communities Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands | by

A submission on behalf of the Pauquachin First Nation to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans; Minister of Environment and Climate Change; Minister of Health; and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations regarding the rehabilitation of shellfish habitat on the Saanich Peninsula >

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Cleaning Up Coles Bay: The Urgent Need to Restore Traditional Shellfish Harvesting Sites of the Pauquachin First Nation

Filed in: Coastal Environmental Justice Indigenous Province-wide Resilient Coast Sustainable Communities Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands | by

A submission on behalf of the Pauquachin First Nation to the Ministers of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation; Health; Environment and Climate Change Strategy; Land, Water and Resource Stewardship; and Agriculture and Food.

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Reducing Wildfire by Encouraging Prescribed and Cultural Burning

Filed in: Environmental Justice Healthy Watersheds and Airsheds Law reform Province-wide Sustainable Communities | by

Law reform recommendations to combat the ever-increasing scale of mega-fires that ravage the province each year through supporting prescribed and cultural burning, which has been an essential part of British Columbia’s ecosystems since time immemorial, and is one of many >

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Indigenous Co-Governance in Protecting the Athabasca River from Tar Sands Effluent

Filed in: Environmental Justice Healthy Watersheds and Airsheds Indigenous Mining & Energy Northern Pollution Sustainable Communities | by

At the end of August, the ELC appeared before a United Nations Reactive Monitoring Mission hearing on behalf of the Mikisew Cree First Nation to present findings from a recently released ELC report on how to regulate any proposed release >