Working for an affected BC First Nation, ELC student Craig Crooks completed a draft submission to the Federal Government, arguing that Ottawa is legally obliged to do more to upgrade First Nations’ drinking water systems. Ottawa’s failure to ensure healthy >
ELC Legal Director Calvin Sandborn collaborated with the Polis Project to write Peeling back the pavement: A Blueprint for Reinventing Rainwater Management in Canada’s Communities, a handbook for local governments wanting to modernize their management of stormwater. The book is based on >
National Publication on Stormwater Management February 2012 ELC Legal Director Calvin Sandborn collaborated with the Polis Project to write Peeling back the Pavement, a Canadian guide for local governments wanting to modernize their management of stormwater. Read the report: http://elc.uvic.ca/publications/documents/PeelingBackthePavement.pdf.
Backgrounder for the ELC Associates teleconference on Environmental Rights: Human Rights and Pollution in Sarnia’s Chemical Valley (June 13, 2011)
December 1, 2010 This two-day environmental law conference intended for litigators, law reformers and policy experts from across Canada will be held in Vancouver on Feb 3-4, 2011. Co-hosted by the ELC, West Coast Environmental Law and Ecojustice, conference topics >
Backgrounder for ELC Associates Program teleconference on The Precautionary Principle in Canada (June 14, 2010)
Backgrounder for Associates teleconference on Environmental Class Actions (June 9, 2008)
Backgrounder for ELC Associates Program teleconference on Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia (February 7, 2008)
Backgrounder on Climate Change Litigation prepared for ELC Associates teleconference (Cohort 1 – Dec 3, 2007)
On behalf of the Sencot’en Alliance–an alliance of four Coast Salish First Nations–ELC student Carly Chunick has prepared a report intended to be used as a tool in the participation of First Nations in the planning and management of the >