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We use the law to protect life on Earth. Ecojustice is Canada’s largest environmental law charity. From coast to coast to coast, we have a proven history of winning key cases and securing environmental protections.

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · Apr 25

#Mathur, the groundbreaking youth-led #climate Charter case brought by 7 young litigants challenging Ontario’s weakened 2030 target, has made history.

Six years in, as we wait to hear whether it will be heard by the #SupremeCourt, we're looking back on how much it has accomplished. 👉 bit.ly/44H1oiZ

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For Our Kids Canada @forourkidscanada.bsky.social · 1d

No matter where you live in Canada, you can help defend public integrity in Alberta by flagging David Yager’s potentially conflicting roles to the Alberta Ethics Commissioner via @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social

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Image of an oil drilling site with text that says "flag David Yager's potential conflicts of interest to Alberta's ethics watchdog"

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CIAJ-ICAJ @ciaj-icaj.bsky.social · 15d

📊 Mathur v. Ontario — A historic legal battle by 7 young people to uphold the Charter in the fight against climate change. Join us in Vancouver, Oct. 28-30 2025, to reflect on the future of environmental law in Canada.
👉 Information and registration: ciaj-icaj.ca/en/upcoming-...

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Watershed Sentinel @watershedsentinel.ca · 11d

@ecojusticecanada.bsky.social is challenging B.C.’s approval for the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission #pipeline.

After 10 years of delay, the company rushed minimal clearing before its certificate expired, yet the EAO still called it “substantially started.”

#StopPRGT #Skeena #PRGT

Challenging PRGT pipeline substantial start

Legal challenge launched over B.C.’s substantial start decision of controversial Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 9d

Ten years ago @mark-carney.bsky.social delivered his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech.

He warned our 🚨financial systems were underprepared for what was coming🚨– and decisions made by leaders would shape the scale of the financial fallout from the climate crisis.

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 9d

Read the joint statement to financial decision-makers here 👉 bit.ly/4gQhvyT

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Groups call on PM for stronger financial regulation

On the 10-year anniversary of PM Carney’s “Tragedy of the Horizon” speech, groups call for stronger regulatory action to tackle growing financial climate risks

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 9d

10 years ago, PM Mark Carney delivered his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech, warning that our financial systems were underprepared for what was to come.

10 years later, very little has changed.

If only someone who understood the financial risks of feeding the climate crisis were in power 👀

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Environmental Defence Canada @environmentaldefence.ca · 9d

#MEDIA: Today marks 10 years since PM Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizons speech, yet our financial system remains underprepared for climate risks and continues to favour investments in fossil fuels over clean energy.

Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...

PM Carney's "Tragedy of the Horizon" at 10: groups call for stronger action - Environmental Defence

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, CHANGE COURSE, ECOJUSTICE, INVESTORS FOR PARIS COMPLIANCE, SHIFT: ACTION FOR PENSION WEALTH AND PLANET HEALTH Ottawa | Traditional,

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 11d

Ecojustice lawyer Lindsay Beck recently spoke to CBC’s What on Earth about our case against the Ford government’s plan to remove Toronto bike lanes. Taking them out puts people at greater risk and more car lanes = traffic, not less. #BikeLanesSaveLives

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

The B.C. Environmental Assessment Office decided that PRGT had substantially started the project — despite the fact that construction had, frankly, barely started, with no pipeline yet laid in the ground, and a mere 42 km stretch of trees partially cleared along a ~900km pipeline route.

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

Otherwise, the certificate would have expired and the company would need a new environmental assessment to continue with the project.

So when the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office issued their decision this past summer, it was met with widespread alarm.

Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

After 10 years of inaction, the company needed to get enough construction done by the deadline in order for the EAO to conclude that the project had been substantially started.

Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

For context: last year, local and First Nations communities saw firsthand how the company behind PRGT had been desperately rushing construction before its decade-old environmental assessment certificate expired in November.

Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 14d

Today, we’re launching a legal challenge of another key decision authorizing the #PRGT pipeline’s construction — the “substantial start” decision — on behalf of Kispiox Valley Community Centre Association, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition and local resident Kathy Larson.

Read: bit.ly/3KhtdXa

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

Keep in mind: in B.C., electricity is a scarce form of potentially green energy that could otherwise be used to power the everyday functioning of the province's economy, which is currently hooked on gas.

🤦‍♀️ So short-sighted.

Read out reaction here >> ecojustice.ca/news/ministe...

Ministers greenlight another LNG project in BC

Ministers’ decision to greenlight another massive LNG export facility makes climate crisis worse for British Columbians, says environmental groups

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

These include a failure to adequately assess its climate impacts (e.g. the impacts of the project’s downstream emissions) and the effects of powering the project with electricity.

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

Ecojustice, on behalf of the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research, the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition and the @wildernews.bsky.social participated in several public comment periods ahead of the decision — pointing out serious flaws with the assessment of the Ksi Lisims LNG project.

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

This is very bad news for British Columbians whose provincial government is already failing to meet its climate goals. Greenlighting the Ksi Lisims LNG facility will now put those goals even further out of reach.

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

By none other than the highly-contested #PrinceRupertGasTransmission pipeline, a 900-km fracked gas pipeline that would cross more than 1,300 waterways and dozens of First Nations’ territories, of course!

#PRGT

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

This news comes two weeks after B.C. communities breathed in some of the 🚨 MOST POLLUTED AIR IN THE WORLD 🚨 due to dozens of out-of-control #wildfires blazing across the province.

How will Ksi Lisims be supplied with fossil gas, you ask?

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 22d

It's official.

Ministers #TamaraDavidson, #AdrianDix and #JulieDabrusin have approved the #KsiLisims LNG export facility, B.C.’s latest fossil fuel mega-project set to export 33 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

READ OUR REACTION >> ecojustice.ca/news/ministe...

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 26d

Ecojustice is out fighting for our right to a healthy #environment. 🙏🏼
Learn more and take action here.
#PFAS #health #cdnpoli @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
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Right to a healthy environment (R2HE)

What your right to a healthy environment really means, Dr. Elaine MacDonald explains

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