Daily Archives: March 8, 2017

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Calvin receives Svitlana Kravchenko award

Filed in: EVENT | March 8, 2017 by The Environmental Law Centre Society

Many congratulations to ELC Legal Director Calvin Sandborn who was awarded Svitlana Kravchenko Environmental Rights Award at this year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon in early March. The award is given to a person who has “exquisite qualities >

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The Urgent Need to Modernize BC’s Mining Regulation

Filed in: Environmental Justice Healthy Watersheds and Airsheds Law reform Mining & Energy Province-wide Research Sustainable Communities | March 8, 2017 by The Environmental Law Centre Society

They may have functioned in the 1800’s, but it’s time for BC’s 19th century Gold Rush laws to change. Damage from mining can permanently poison entire watersheds, exterminate fish, poison shellfish, deform birds and fish, destroy riparian areas (needed for fish >

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