As we take an end-of-fiscal-year deep breath, we’re also taking a moment to reflect. If we had to choose a theme for this past year, it would have to be transition. Along with our usual activities of teaching students and helping communities tackle environmental law problems, we celebrated a retiring colleague, launched Cohort 9 of ELC >
Prepared for Northern Confluence Initiative, this report documents how BC’s mineral compensation regime is a barrier to meeting biodiversity protection and Indigenous reconciliation commitments and obligations and sets out a series of principles and approaches for reform.
Report prepared for Surfrider Canada analyzing potential law reforms to protect oceans and waterways from cigarette butt pollution.
A report prepared on behalf of Bev Sellars, President of Moccasin Footprint Society, outlining a range of approaches for whole-of-river protection initiatives.
Two submissions regarding the management of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) prepared on behalf of World Economic Forum Global Shapers – Vancouver Branch: Federal Submission: Provincial Submission:
Submission prepared for Above Ground setting out the most feasible federal law reform recommendations for Canada to meet its commitments to end public financing for the international fossil fuel industry.
Submission prepared on behalf of Surfrider Foundation on the best ways to address abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear, which are a significant cause of marine plastic pollution and which have serious effects on marine life in oceans and on coastlines around the world. The submission includes recommendations for the federal government to:
A submission prepared on the behalf of the BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council regarding the need for a moratorium on placer mining claims and leases in BC.
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 and the BC coast. Pauquachin First Nation Letter:
Request to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard on behalf of the British Columbia Wildlife Federation (“BCWF”) and yaqan nukiy (Lower Kootenay Band) to investigate concerns about ongoing harm to fish and fish habitat occurring in the West Arm of Kootenay Lake, BC.