Monday, March 31, 2014 Last month, the federal government rejected Taseko Mines’proposal to build the controversial New Prosperity Project. Again. But Taseko is going to court arguing that the environmental assessment process that resulted in a “No” for the second time was based on an error, and that it should
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: New Prosperity News – Comment by September 28th!
Monday, September 24, 2012 On September 14th, the federal Review Panel conducting the New Prosperity environmental assessment released three documents. Two describe the approach that the Panel proposes to use for “Confidentiality” and for the panel’s Hearing Procedures, respectively, and invites the public to comment on these procedures. The third
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The fast and the furious – Coming changes to environmental laws speed up process for industry and are an accident waiting to happen for the public and our environment
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 The federal government seems set on further gutting theCanadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA), and is expected to introduce “sweeping” regulatory changes to CEAA and related legislation in the House of Commons in the coming weeks. These changes could affect upcoming proposals for pipelines, tar sands projects,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Tsilhqot’in v. Taseko and smart litigation
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 West Coast Environmental Law congratulates the Tsilhqot’in First Nation on its most recent court win in its efforts to protect Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) from the development of Taseko’s Prosperity (now called “New Prosperity”) mine. Last week lawyers for the Tsilhqot’in and Taseko tangled in court,
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Oops! HDI is more of an uncle to Taseko than a parent
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
In a recent story we reported that Mr. Jason Quigley, formerly of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and Fisheries and…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: For the Ecotourism Industry and Tsilhqot’in First Nation of Taseko Lake; ‘No’ Means No
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The strongest arguments bolstering economic and political support for…
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