Earth Day Event Details
About the Environmental Rights Working Group
Environmental Rights Resources and Publications
Communities across the province are uniting to demand that Nova Scotia enshrine their right to a healthy environment.
Nova Scotians are often left in the lurch when it comes to industrial pollution and other environmental degradation impacting their communities. Without a legal right to a healthy environment, community members find their concerns falling on deaf ears.
Marking Earth Day, the Environmental Rights Working Group (ERWG) is proposing a non-partisan Bill of Environmental Rights (EBR) for Nova Scotia to give everyone in the province legal access to demand a healthy environment. Similar laws exist in other provinces, but this is the first time a proposed EBR recognizes the unique concerns of traditionally marginalized or vulnerable residents.
Residents from Boat Harbour, Harrietsfield, Lincolnville, Sipekne’katik and Shelburne will gather to share their stories and describe how a Bill of Environmental Rights would have made a difference to their communities, and how it can change the future.
Event Details
Earth Day Launch of Nova Scotia Environmental Bill of Rights
- Date: Friday, April 21, 2017
- Start Time: 10:00am
- Location: Wooden Monkey, 1707 Grafton St, Halifax, NS
- Emcee: Ingrid Waldron (ENRICH Project)
Speakers:
- Marlene Brown, Community of Harrietsfield
- Jonathan Beadle, Pictou Landing First Nation
- Raymond Sheppard, Community of Lincolnville
- Dorene Bernard, Sipekne'katik (Indian Brook) First Nation
- Louise Delisle, Community of Shelburne
- Lisa Mitchell, ECELAW
Documents Being Released - April 21st, 2017:
- Environmental Bill of Rights
- Community Summaries from 5 affected communities
- Environmental Rights Overview
OPEN TO ALL
About the Nova Scotia Environmental Rights Working Group
The Nova Scotia Environmental Rights Working Group (ERWG) is a coalition of environmental and community leaders whose mandate is to create legally-based environmental rights.
Members include:
- Lisa Mitchell, Executive Director, East Coast Environmental Law
- Mark Butler, Policy Director, Ecology Action Centre
- Lil McPherson, Food Activist and Owner of the Wooden Monkey
- Gretchen Fitzgerald, National Programs, Sierra Club of Canada Foundation
- Silver Donald Cameron, Journalist, Green Interview
- Tricia Barry, Board of Directors, Ecojustice
- Jamie Simpson, Lawyer, Juniper Law
- Heather Johannesen, Nova Scotia Environmental Network
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- Ingrid Waldron, Director, ENRICH
- Vinidhra Vaitheeswaran, Board of Directors, ECELAW
- Sadie Beaton, Ecology Action Centre
- Matthew Green, Director, NSPIRG
- Ellen Sweeney, Health Research Scientist, Atlantic PATH
- Jenna Khoury-Hanna, student, Schulich School of Law
- Taylor Smiley, student Schulich School of Law
- Mike Kofahl, student, Schulich School of Law
- Neil Robertson, student, Schulich School of Law
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Resources
Environmental Rights Community Summaries:
