The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings. After...

The landmark case, La Rose v. His Majesty the King, began with a group of young people who refused to accept inaction in the face of the climate crisis. Now, seven years later, they’re preparing to go...

West Coast Environmental Law is seeking a Senior Climate Communications & Engagement Specialist to support communications and digital campaigns related to our climate programs. This is an immediate op...

Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC rep says.

A First Nation along the route of the proposed West Coast Oil Pipeline (now called Pacific Link) says it’s considering court action.

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The federal government says the purpose of Bill C-39 is to make project decisions in one year. But tucked inside are a dizzying array of more than 300 clauses that amend more than a dozen separate pie...

On September 3, the federal government quietly made one of the most consequential environmental deregulation decisions in recent Canadian history.

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Every time there’s a mass shooting in the U.S., pro-gun politicians, backed by the National Rifle Association, take a moment to send “thoughts and prayers” to the victims. And then do nothing to curta...

The Alberta and federal governments are proposing a costly new west coast pipeline and tanker project – funded by taxpayers – crossing BC and terminating on the south coast at Roberts Bank. The federa...

In the immediate wake of Canada Day and in the middle of another summer of wildfires, on July 2 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new bitumen pipeline project to the BC coast that would run t...

New campaign calls on Members of Parliament to protect southern resident killer whales from new legislation or project decisions that would put their populations at risk of extinction

In the 1960s, the federal Department of Fisheries (DFO) met with fishers in the Campbell River area to talk about what to do about the prevalence of orca whales who were viewed as a hindrance to the s...

How can a community turn a polluted metropolitan waterway into a vibrant and thriving urban ecosystem? This loaded question may have a relatively simple answer. Make it swimmable.

We spoke to Melanie Mercier and Nils French from Save Record Ridge Action Committee to learn more about their concerns about the mine, their hopes for the upcoming BC Supreme Court appeal, and what th...

Two years after British Columbia released a long-awaited strategy for its coastal waters, the ministry responsible says Donald Trump’s trade war is forcing it to rethink what it can accomplish.

Canada’s environmental safety net is under attack and we need your help

Unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin Territories , 25 August 2026: In response to the collapse of the U.S.-Canada trade negotiations over the weekend, Caroline Brouillette, Executive Director of Climate Ac...

The B.C. government says it took down its public employee directory due to cybersecurity and privacy concerns, but now some are worried the restricted access amounts to a loss of transparency.

Wildfire is a public cost of climate change yet there's no provincial acknowledgment they're exacerbated by domestic fossil fuel production

The former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open letter highlighting concerns over proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act, which they...

Province cites cybersecurity, privacy risks

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In 2015, when Mark Carney was Governor of the Bank of England, and had not yet ascended to the role of Canada’s Prime Minister, he gave a massively influential speech to insurance companies in which h...

The deal would leave the public on the hook for more of the TMX megaproject’s cost overruns.

Scrubbers allow ships to continue burning the dirtiest marine fuels by ‘scrubbing out’ the sulphur dioxide from its exhaust. However, that scrubbed out sulphur has to go somewhere — and the wastewater...

Canadian government officials met with fossil fuel lobbyists more than 1,300 times in 2024, including at least 83 times with Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson. At the same time, the...