As the year comes to a close, we want to say thank you to everyone who has supported East Coast Environmental Law and worked alongside us to advance our mission in 2025. We wish you all a very Happy New Year. 

A Few Highlights From 2025

Thank you to everyone who has given today and in the last few weeks to support our wetlands protection work. If you want to support the work that we do and help us to protect wetlands in Atlantic Canada, there’s still time!

Today is Giving Tuesday, and we’re asking for your support to help us expand our wetlands protection work across Atlantic Canada. Wetlands are vital ecosystems that need stronger legal protection. Despite the growing need for advocacy and support, much of our work to protect wetlands is not directly funded. 

Blue carbon refers to carbon dioxide that is sequestered (stored) by coastal or marine ecosystems such as salt marshes and seagrass meadows. These blue carbon ecosystems draw down and store significant amounts of carbon in their sediments long-term, reducing the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere more than terrestrial ecosystems like forests do. In Atlantic Canada, both salt marshes and seagrass meadows are under threat of being degraded and destroyed by industrial activities and coastal development.

For years, we’ve been advocating for the protection of wetlands in Nova Scotia by participating in the annual Wetlands Appreciation Week and developing resources like the Guide to Municipal Wetlands Stewardship in Nova Scotia and  Legal and Policy Tools to Protect Wetlands in Nova Scotia. This year, we’re asking for your support so we can continue to expand our work and develop more resources for communities that are working to protect wetlands across Atlantic Canada. 

On October 16, 2025, the Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (“CNSOER”) issued a Call for Information that invites feedback on a number of topics that will inform Atlantic Canada’s first offshore wind licencing process.

Join East Coast Environmental Law staff lawyers, Mike Kofahl and Richelle Martin, in Charlottetown, PEI on October 23rd from 6:00PM - 8:30PM for a free environmental law education workshop about coastal access law and policy.  

We’ve published some new public resources on offshore wind law, policy, and assessments in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia!