Fisheries

ELC presents Green Regs and Ham: Coastal Conundrums April 15, Edmonton

NOTE - TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED Coastal environmental concerns are highly relevant to land locked Alberta, but rarely do we discuss them. Join the ELC and our guest speakers to look beyond Alberta’s borders at the conundrums of crude and coastal communities. Up for discussion...

18 March, 2019 / 0 Comments

Future Flows: maintaining environmental flows through precaution and adaptation

The Environmental Law Centre is calling for a rethinking of water law and policy in Alberta. The ELC's report Future Flows: climate resilience, environmental flows and Alberta’s water law explores existing legal mechanisms to deal with maintaining and restoring environmental flows in our rivers and...

28 January, 2019 / 0 Comments

Spring Reports of the CESD

Spring Reports of the CESD The Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD) recently released her Spring 2018 Reports. There are three Reports: Report 1: Salmon Farming; Report 2: Canada’s Preparedness to Implement the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals; and Report 3: Conserving Biodiversity along with The...

16 May, 2018 / 0 Comments

Pickerel, Pipelines and Pancakes: A Summary of ELC’s Green Regs and Ham breakfast discussion

Pickerel, Pipelines and Pancakes: A Summary of ELC's Green Regs and Ham breakfast discussion “For too long Alberta has been forced to accept drastically reduced prices for our iconic fish-flavoured flat-cakes due to a lack of access to lucrative Asian breakfast markets.” With such an introduction and welcome...

08 May, 2018 / 0 Comments

Back to what we once HADD (plus more)

Back to what we once HADD: Fisheries Act Amendments are Introduced Since the 1970s, section 35 of the Fisheries Act operated to protect fish and fish habitat throughout Canada by prohibiting the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat (the HADD provision). Up to 2012, the...

08 February, 2018 / 1 Comment