When the Trudeau Government announced the appointment of an expert panel (the “Panel”) to consider the future of the Canadian Environmental Assessment, 2012 (“CEAA, 2012”), […]
As 2016 draws to a close, CELL celebrates six very successful first months as Canada’s newest non-profit public interest environmental law organization. CELL was incorporated […]
Chris Tollefson, executive director of CELL, breaks it down in an in-depth interview with Roundhouse Radio 98.3FM Vancouver’s Kirk Lapointe. Chris discusses why this review […]
Today, CELL filed written submissions on behalf of the Federation of British Columbia Naturalists (BC Nature) to the federal Expert Panel on the Review of […]
Today, lawyers with CELL filed an application for judicial review at the Federal Court on behalf of SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, a non-profit conservation organization based […]
CELL congratulates Catherine Boies Parker, president of the CELL board of directors, for being the 2016 recipient of the Georges A. Goyer, Q.C. Memorial Award […]
CELL is supporting a petition for judicial review that was filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, which seeks a declaration that the Province […]
DeSmog Canada has just released an article featuring CELL. Read the article, authored by Carol Linnitt, here: http://www.desmog.ca/2016/07/28/new-public-interest-law-office-fight-b-c-s-biggest-environmental-battles Posted: July 28, 2016
There are at least ten good reasons why Ottawa should redesign our current federal environmental law statute—the CEAA, 2012— from scratch, writes Chris Tollefson, Professor […]
The recent report of the National Energy Board on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion approval being sought by Kinder Morgan came as no surprise to […]