Seven Reforms to Address Marine Plastic Pollution
Report prepared for the T. Buck Suzuki Foundation. [This paper was edited October 23, 2017 on p. 16 to include information about Seattle’s ban on plastic straws (see footnote 65).]
Publications
Drinking Water Health Hazard Protection Order (2017 Aug 14)
Letter on behalf of the Kamloops Area Preservation Association to K. McNamara, Drinking Water Officer, Kamloops Public Health Unit for a Drinking Water Health Hazard Prevention Order regarding the proposed Ajax Mining project. Includes hydrogeologist report prepared by Dr. Gilles Wendling.
2016-17 Annual Report
Hullcar Valley Area Based Management Plan – Cover letter
Cover letter submitted with appendices and report to the Minister of Environment on behalf of our clients Save Hullcar Aquifer Team (SHAT) with specific recommendations about how government can improve the Order for an Area Based Management Plan so that is ensures clean drinking water in the Hullcar Valley. Click here for our webstory about >
Hullcar Valley Area Based Management Plan – Appendices
Appendices to report and cover letter submitted to the Minister of Environment on behalf of our clients Save Hullcar Aquifer Team (SHAT) with specific recommendations about how government can improve the Order for an Area Based Management Plan so that is ensures clean drinking water in the Hullcar Valley. Click here for our webstory about >
Hullcar Valley Area Based Management Plan Recommendations
Report submitted to the Minister of Environment on behalf of our clients Save Hullcar Aquifer Team (SHAT) with specific recommendations about how government can improve the Order for an Area Based Management Plan so that is ensures clean drinking water in the Hullcar Valley. See cover letter See Appendices Click here for our webstory about >
Fixing Systemic Failures in BC’s Mining Regulation: The Urgent Need for a Judicial Inquiry
Report and letter prepared for the Fairmining Collaborative (read related story)
2017Feb24 – Letter to Information and Privacy Commissioner
On behalf of BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA), letter requesting the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner conduct a systemic study on why particular provincial ministries are not proactively releasing key environmental orders, permits, contravention decisions and policy manuals.
Lower Coquitlam River Watershed Plan: Tools for Healthy Watersheds and Healthy Humans
This report provides information on legal tools that can assist the Cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam in achieving the objectives outlined in the Lower Coquitlam River Watershed Plan and to provide an outline of legal tools citizens can use to participate in municipal action. Developed by the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable, the Lower Coquitlam River >
Protecting Granby Valley Grizzly Bears
Report with recommendations prepared for the Friends and Residents of the North Fork that compares how laws in BC and the US protect grizzlies from road development.