The environment where we live determines our health, and none of us are protected when environmental laws don’t recognize or protect community members’ rights to ask questions, engage, and speak out against projects that will be damaging for current and future generations.  

By supporting East Coast Environmental Law this Giving Tuesday, you’ll support environmental rights advocacy in Atlantic Canada. 

This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking supporters to empower our environmental rights advocacy throughout Atlantic Canada. Residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island deserve legal rights to a healthy environment and liveable climate, but those rights aren’t yet recognized or protected in our provincial laws.

Since its launch last week, our campaign to win a right to a healthy environment in Nova Scotia has been gaining momentum!

Having no right to a healthy environment.

Since 2015, East Coast Environmental Law has been assessing and reporting on how provincial governments in Atlantic Canada are implementing their laws to protect species at risk. We’ve been asking: Are species being assessed and designated as being in need of protection? Are timelines and obligations for management and recovery planning being met? Are species’ habitats being protected?

On Wednesday, October 23rd, join us for a free public workshop on coastal law and policy at the Prince Edward Island Farm Centre in Charlottetown.

Since 2015, East Coast Environmental Law has been assessing and reporting on provincial protections for species at risk in Atlantic Canada. More specifically, we’ve been evaluating how provincial governments in Atlantic Canada are performing under their own laws designed to protect species at risk.

This spring, Bill C-49 passed third reading in the House of Commons and moved to the Senate. After passing second reading by the Senate in early June, the Bill was given to the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources for detailed consideration.