"Environmental law" or "development law"? : deconstructing liberal guilt

• Main Author: Leane, Geoffrey W.G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Allard Research Commons 2008
• Subjects: Kitimat; First Nations
• Online Access: https://commons.allard.ubc.ca/theses/451; https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0086576

The author uses a case study, arising out of his personal experience as a businessperson and later as a lawyer, to illustrate Canadian environmental law regimes and how they function in practice. The case study is based on events in the Kitimat region of northwestern British Columbia, the site of a...