The Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic gives Osgoode JD students experience using law to remedy environmental injustice & advance sustainability
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Grateful to have collaborated with @DeborahLCurran to launch justice, ecology, law & place amongst friends #JELP9
We came together with care/joy these past few days on unceded Algonquin territory to build community and commemorate Meinhard @J_Env_Law_Prac. Inspiring conversations, long lake swims and overdue reunions
And congratulations to @OsgoodeNews 2L student Lo Stevenson who prevailed over colleagues in a rousing game of environmental law trivia to win a copy of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated (Redford and Gevisser, eds., OR Books)
Last seminar with the @OsgoodeNews students in the 2022-2023 EJSC yesterday. Hard saying goodbye to this fantastic crew. Smart, critical, committed.
How law schools are creating a "pipeline" of talent straight into fossil-defending, climate villain firms: student debt is a crucial driving factor
A new report examines how the top 20-ranked law schools are funneling students into jobs supporting “climate destroying” projects. buff.ly/3T1Z1Q6
This case is crucial to follow: why should police be allowed to serve companies by preventing us from understanding the impacts of extraction on Indigenous communities and the land? thenarwhal.ca/bracken-rcmp-c…
Osgoode’s EJSC student Lo Stevenson also attended the Conference of the Parties (COP15) last month. In Lo’s recent blog, they argue that area-based conservation should proceed at the watershed level to protect critical habitats: bitlylinks.com/IJ9koA9X9
Osgoode’s EJSC student Emma Workman attended COP15 for the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal last month. In Emma’s recent blog, she examines Indigenous Peoples’ role in achieving area-based conservation goals around 30x30: bitly.ws/yZs8
In Emma’s complimentary blog, she discusses the tension between environmental goals and economic goals, alongside the need for conservation economies in the context of the Convention of Biological Diversity: bitlylinks.com/VP0gy2Sf1
Last Wednesday, we took the class outside! Thanks to @OsgoodeNews JD/MES student Celia White and MES student Michelle Kushnir for a moving presentation on the rights of rivers, while reflecting on our place in the Black Creek watershed
Students of environmental justice must study the resistance of Grassy Narrows...
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Looking forward to this exciting event Wednesday! We will hear directly from @sophiamathur, lead applicant, de-briefing the recent hearing in the youth climate Charter challenge: also @Indigenous_ca @auntybre, @ecojustice_ca @N_Chalifour @CELGS and Prof Lynda Collins
Join us tomorrow for an exciting panel on #SueBigOil—a bold, new strategy to make top polluters pay their fair share for the costs of climate change. With Staff Lawyer @singingwithin, @avilewis, @AdrianeCarr & @StepanWood.
📅Oct 12, 12-1:30pm. Online:
royalroads.ca/events/sue-big…
cbc.ca/newsinteractives/feat…. @NeskantagaFN's sturgeon stewardship protection program, namekaa gaagige launched this summer on the Attawapiskat River, with this gorgeous image by @christibelcourt
@OzEJS is proud to support @NeskantagaFN in their defence of their right to FPIC in the Ring of Fire
Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario firmly opposes development of the Ring of Fire mineral belt in their territory, fearing it would destroy their way of life. But ON Premier Doug Ford and the mining and electric vehicle industries are circling.
cbc.ca/newsinteractives/feat…
MPP Sol Mamakwa is almost alone in the Legislature challenging the government's line on Ring of Fire. Indigenous peoples have to provide consent to mining in their homelands, whether Ontario needs the minerals for an energy transition or not. And he is right, we don't need them
So much Ring of Fire gaslighting in the chamber this morning.
Where to begin:
- Mining is clean
- Ontario must have the RoF minerals for green energy
- Getting a mine up and running shouldn’t take this long.
Respectfully to the Minister, none of that is true. #onpoli
Osgoode EJS Clinic retweeted
📢 BREAKING!
In a historic decision, the @UN General Assembly just adopted the resolution to universally recognize the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!
This signals what we hope will be the beginning of a new era in rights-based environmental policy.
A thread 🧵👇
Co-director @estair on colonial land grabs in @TheTyee: <<Van Wagner describes how the courts skew their weighting in favour of authorizations granted relatively recently to industry over the long-standing and continuous use of First Nations>>: thetyee.ca/News/2022/06/20/D…
Osgoode EJS Clinic retweeted
The legal sector is undergoing its own transition during the #ClimateCrisis. @LawSocietyofBC is being asked to recognize the legal duty of lawyers to consider #climate risks to clients. "We are wilfully putting on blinders if we ignore these realities."
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/06/1…
