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August 13, 2019 Halifax / K’jipuktuk — John Perkins has filed a lawsuit against Atlantic Gold Corporation and the RCMP stemming from his arrest at a public information session organized by the gold mining corporation at the Sherbrooke Fire Hall…
Providing public legal education is one of the three pillars of our mandate at East Coast Environmental Law. This May, we were thrilled to launch a pilot project called “Youth to Youth: Law and the Environment”, which we developed specifically…
June 14, 2019 Lawyers at East Coast Environmental Law have joined a group of over 20 prominent legal professionals calling on the federal Ministers of Health and Environment and Climate Change to add plastic waste to the list of Toxic…
June 13, 2019 K’jipuktuk/Halifax: The federal government has rejected a number of amendments from the Senate, but not all. Life cycle regulator appointees can now chair review panels. The four life cycle regulators mentioned in the Bill C-69 are the…
May 23, 2019 Today was a HUGE win for the residents of Harrietsfield, Nova Scotia! The federal government and Government of Nova Scotia have just announced that 15 million dollars will be invested into the clean-up of the contaminated RDM…