This handout provides an overview of the health and safety risks associated with oil and gas development in order to support a discussion that will lead to the adoption in BC of legislation and regulations that reflect ...
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This Guide aims to increase green buildings in BC, by providing a central resource to the suite of regulatory and policy tools currently available to local governments to support green building design/practices. It ...
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This is a four page brochure that identifies the potential implications of lifting the tanker moratorium and of allowing the Enbridge oil pipeline across northern BC. It looks at risks of oil spills and other potential ...
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This paper outlines the ways that working farms contribute to the ecological health of an area, and how Land Trusts can contribute to supporting and helping farms make that contribution.
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This paper makes a series of findings and recommendations in regard to how Canada should address climate change and implement the Kyoto Protocol.
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The SCC has written about the fundamental importance of environmental protection. However, this approach has not been supported in the courts. This paper argues that the reason for the absence of a shift in case law is ...
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This submission makes recommendations regarding access to information about compensation details in petroleum and natural gas surface lease agreements.
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This brief comments on Smart Regulation for Canada, a 2004 a document by the EACSR. We support many of the recommendations. However, those related to risk management and international standards, and voluntary ...
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The Forest and Range Practices Act of 2002 brought in a new era of forestry deregulation that placed an unprecedented degree of control over public resources in the hands of forest companies. There are inadequate checks ...
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As part of the BC Ministry of Environment 2007 review of the Wildlife Act, West Coast Environmental Law made a series of recommendations which encouraged the focus on wildlife protection, transparency, accountability ...
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