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Guidebooks:
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Environmental Laws: A Field Guide for BC’s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii
Developed in collaboration with the Coastal Guardian Watchmen Network, a project of the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative, this field guide summarizes techniques that First Nations Guardian Watchmen (environmental monitors) can use to investigate environmental offences and the major environmental offences that apply on Haida Gwaii and the North/Central coast.
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Cyclist's Collision Checklist
Promoting safer cycling. Working with the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition, the ELC created the pamphlet to provide information to cyclists who are involved in collisions or near-collisions.
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A Citizen's Guide to FOI
Knowledge is power. This layperson's guide to British Columbia's
Freedom of Information legislation will help you get documents
and other information from provincial and local governments,
educational institutions, and professional bodies.
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cleanair.ca: a citizen's action guide
Authored by the ELC and published by the Sierra Legal Defence
Fund, this guide offers a scientific and legal primer
on air pollution across Canada. The initiative also includes
an interactive website dedicated to climate change issues.
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The Civil Disobedience Handbook
This handbook was created as a response to the increasing
occurrence of civil disobedience in Canadian forests. The
handbook is designed to ensure that environmental protesters
who are considering participating in acts of civil disobedience
are fully informed of the potential consequences of their
acts, and of the legal distinctions between various courses
of action.
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handbook] |
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Organising Forestry Co-operatives in British
Columbia: A Handbook
This handbook is a production of the ELC on behalf of the
British
Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, and provides
a step-by-step guide to developing a forestry co-operative.
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Organising Fishery Co-operatives in British
Columbia: A Handbook
This handbook is a production of the ELC on behalf of the
British
Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, and provides
a step-by-step guide to developing a fishery co-operative.
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Law Reform:
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Environmental Tribunals in British Columbia
This Law Foundation funded report examines BC Tribunals and provides recommendations as to how they might be improved in order to better serve the public interest and protect the environment.
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Environmental Assessment in British Columbia
This Law Foundation funded report examines history of the Act, evaluates the current process for environmental assessment in BC, documents the experiences and opinions of participants, and considers how British Columbia’s environmental assessment process might be improved
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Re-inventing Rainwater Management: Protecting Health and Restoring Nature in the Capital Region
This report documents the vast damage stormwater causes and then lays out a law reform strategy for solving the problem.
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Green Bylaws Toolkit
This comprehensive resource explains how to use a myriad of tools—from planning to regulatory bylaws—to protect wetlands, grasslands and other important ecosystems.
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A Law to Fight Global Warming
The ELC and Conservation Voters of BC created draft legislation to fight global warming and held a panel symposium where panelists commented on the law.
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act] [download
backgrounder] |
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At A Watershed
The ELC and the Polis Project
have co-authored a landmark study of the best water conservation
strategies being employed around the world. The study recommends
that Canada adopt a National Water Strategy to conserve this
vital resource.
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report] [download
summary]
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Children's Clean Air Act
The ELC has prepared a draft Children's Clean Air Act
that will likely be submitted to Federal Parliament as a Private
Member's Bill.
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draft Act] [download
background info] [press
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Project Reports:
- 2011, Spring - The Raven Mine: A Regulatory and Fiscal Black Hole? by Maya Stano
- 2011, Spring - Challenging the Shutdown of School Buses by Natasha Gooch
- 2010, Fall - Recommendations to Reform the Laws Protecting Orca from Boat Traffic by Rose Keates
- 2010, Fall - Why is BC’s Fish Resource Slipping Through Cracks in the Regulatory System? by Laura Sworn
- 2010, Spring - Conserving the Planet Without Hurting Low-Income Families: Options for Fair Energy-Efficiency Programs for Low-Income Households by Maine McEachern and ELC Articled Student Jill Vivian
- 2010, Spring - Access Denied: Abuses and Failures under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act by Morgan Blakley
- 2009, Fall - Regional District Conservation Funds in British Columbia: Three Case Studies
by Micah Carmody, Articled Student
- 2008, Fall - Traffic Congestion and Human Waste Dumping in the Saanich Inlet
by Tim Thielmann, Articled Student
- 2008, Fall - Preserving Closed School Lands as Public Green Spaces
by Kristen Holden
- 2008, Summer - Conservation Options for Species at Risk on Small Private Lots
by Colin Edstrom
- 2008, Spring - Casual Carpooling: A Background Guide by Shannon Gibson
- 2008, Spring - BCUC Memo: Law Reform Project by Caroline Price
- 2007, Summer - Community Farm Trust Handbook by Vanessa Reakes
- 2007, Summer - TILMA and Local Government Environmental Initiatives by Melinda Skeels, ELC Articled Student, and Freya Zaltz
- 2007, Spring - Legal Barriers to Increased Local Food Production and Distribution and Trade Restrictions on Local Food Production and Distribution by Kendra Milne
- 2007, Spring - Urban Forests: The Regulation of Garry Oak Ecosystems in British Columbia by Jennifer Raso
- 2006, Fall - Shellfish Aquaculture and the New Relationship Workshop Background Paper by Tamara Olding
- 2006, Summer - Report on the Sencot'en Alliance's Participation in the Planning and Management of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve by Carly Chunick
- 2006, Summer - Case Studies of Agricultural Land Commission Decisions: The Need for Inquiry and Reform by Ryan Green
- 2005, Spring - Regulating
Power Line EMF Exposure: International Precedents by Nadine
Wu
- 2004, Summer - International
Indigenous Law Bibliography by Carl Lem
- 2004, Summer - Norway
vs. B.C.: A Comparision of Aquaculture Regulatory Regimes
by Aaron Dow
- 2003, Fall - Sewer
Use Control in the GVRD by Cory LaBoucane
- 2003, Summer - Responding
to FinFish Aquaculture in Your Territory by Lani Gibson
- 2003, Summer - Borrowing
U.S. Law on Conservation Covenants by Jody Patsch and Paula
Ramsay
- 2003, Summer - Environmental
Information and Public Participation by Kami Francis-Nishima
- 2002, Fall - Shellfish
Aquaculture and First Nations by Kathryn Deo
- 2002, Fall - Access
to Information and Public Participation by Catherine Milsum
- 2002, Fall - Duty
to Consult with First Nations by Paul Brackstone
- 2002, Fall - Securities
Disclosure Requirements for Canadian Mining Interests by
Leo Lane
- 2002, Summer - Government
Liability by John Boccabella
- 2002, Spring - Transporation
Demand Management by Karl Blattman & Scott Waters
- 2001, Summer - Park
Use Permits by Kash Gandham
- 2001, Spring - Organizing
Fishery Co-operatives in BC: The Legal and Policy Framework
by Aaron Welch
- 2001, Spring - Organizing
Forestry Co-operatives in BC: The Legal and Policy Framework
by Aaron Welch
- 1999, Spring - Conservation
Covenants by Kim Hawkins and Jay Nelson
- 1998, Spring - Critical
Analysis of the 1997 EAO Salmon Aquaculture Review
Other Reports:
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Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation: The British Columbia Experience
This article written by ELC Executive Director and former ELC student Michaelin Scott was published in Volume 19 Issue 1 (April 2010) of Reciel, Review of European Community and International Development Law, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Litigating the Precautionary Principle
This article written by ELC Executive Director and former ELC articled student Jamie Thornback was published the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice (19 J.E.L.P.)
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