Monthly Archives: March 2019

How Can the Province of Nova Scotia Protect its Coast?

By: Piotr Rak Many jurisdictions are trying to enact new laws to protect their coastlines from various pressures, such as offshore oil drilling and climate change. Recent examples include the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act and the Atlantic Coastal Economies Protection Act in the United States. Both of these statutes are limited to […]

Research-a-Thon: Understanding Bill C-69

Calling all students who have taken Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law or the Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic: You are invited to direct your collective brain power toward collecting data and researching legal outcomes that could help to debunk some of the arguments currently being used to prevent new federal impact assessment legislation from being […]

Holding the Carbon Majors Accountable: Philippines Human Rights Commission investigates big polluters for their role in causing climate change

By Graham Reeder On 22 September 2015, Greenpeace Southeast Asia (Philippines), thirteen other  non-profit organizations, disaster survivors, and notable individuals,  with the support of  tens of thousands of Filipinos, filed a petition before  the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) against the world’s largest investor-owned carbon  and cement producers, known as the ‘Carbon […]