East Coast Environmental Law
6061 University Avenue, PO Box 15000 B3H 4R2 Halifax, NS, Canada

We're thrilled to share a new toolkit we developed with WWF-Canada & West Coast Environmental Law which dives into the impacts of shipping in Canadian Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)! The toolkit will help marine law enthusiasts, MPA practitioners, and shipping experts identify tools to reduce shipping impacts on sea life.

The latest volume of our Summary Series, a guide to aquaculture regulation in Nova Scotia, is now available on our website at no cost!

In case you missed yesterday's webinar-- "Are our laws getting in the way of climate action?"--you can watch it in full on our website today! Hear what East Coa...st Environmental Law's Tina Northrup has to say about the legislative barriers and opportunities for creating a reliable, affordable and renewable electricity system. Plus, don't forget to check out our blog to sign up for two more upcoming webinars as part of our collaboration with Ecology Action Centre on the Atlantic Vision Electricity Project.

In response to continued and intensifying acts of violence against Mi'kmaq, we are calling on the Government of Canada to take responsibility for settler violence and take action to prevent it: https://www.ecelaw.ca//19_Oct_2020_Open_Letter_to_Federal_

We're looking forward to taking part in this webinar on law's relationship to affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity in Atlantic Canada! The webinar is being hosted by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and the Ecology Action Centre, and it is free and open to all. Register now if you're interested!

Today we published four new legal toolkits on environmental impact assessment processes in Atlantic Canada.

East Coast Environmental Law has assessed the Government of New Brunswick’s compliance with the New Brunswick Species at Risk Act, and our research demonstrates a disturbing pattern of failure.

Today is Treaty Day! Check out this essay by staff lawyer Tina Northrup, in which she reflects on settler treaty personhood in Mi'kma'ki and offers some commentary on Canada's constitutional common law and the legacy of R v Marshall.

We have two new additions to our Summer Student 2020 blog series! Check out new posts by Ian MacKinnon and Nicole Tomasic, who helped us to prepare materials for public legal education documents that we hope to make available soon! https://www.ecelaw.ca/blog.html

We've got a series of new blog posts up by three of the wonderful summer interns who worked with us this year! Check out Kanisha Acharya-Patel's reflections on researching the aquaculture regime in Nova Scotia, Laura Graham's reflections on researching coastal protection issues in Nova Scotia, and Keira Lewis's reflections on researching Aboriginal and Indigenous law cases from the Atlantic region! https://www.ecelaw.ca/blog.html