Western Canada Wilderness Committee et al. v. Oil and Gas Commission (B.C.) et al., [2014] B.C.T.C. Uned. 1919 (SC)
| Jurisdiction | British Columbia |
| Judge | Fitzpatrick, J. |
| Court | Supreme Court of British Columbia (Canada) |
| Subject Matter | STATUTES,PRACTICE,ADMINISTRATIVE LAW,POLLUTION CONTROL,MINES AND MINERALS |
| Citation | [2014] B.C.T.C. Uned. 1919 (SC),[2014] B.C.T.C. Uned. 1919,2014 BCSC 1919 |
| Date | 10 October 2014 |
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13 practice notes
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Table of cases
...430−31 British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission) v Western Canada Wilderness Committee, 2014 BCSC 1919 ....................................................271 British Columbia Forest Products Ltd v Nordal (1954), 11 WWR (NS) 403, [1954] BCJ No 8 (SC) ..............................................
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THE RELAXATION OF REPRESENTATIVE STANDING IN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: A SIDE-EFFECT OF CHARTERS OF RIGHTS?
...Have Standing", supra note 1 at 734. (186) See e.g. Western Canada Wilderness Committee v British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919 at paras 56-57, [2015] 1 WWR 564 [Western Canada Wilderness Committee] (groups interested generally in environmental protection and Hacking had......
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Sources of Authority: Provincial-Level Land-Use Planning Powers
...of fracking litigation, see Wally Braul et al, “Water Use Challenges to Oil and Gas Developments” (2015) 53 Alberta Law Review 323. 221 2014 BCSC 1919. LAND-USE PLANNING 272 leader in The Economist , the process is described: “There does, however, seem to be a way of reconciling coal and cl......
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Waterway Houseboats Ltd. v. British Columbia,
...to manage the “valuable public resource” that is water: Western Canada Wilderness Committee v. British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919 [Western Canada Wilderness Committee] at para. [71] At all times relevant to this dispute, the Water Act provided four means for a municip......
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3 cases
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Waterway Houseboats Ltd. v. British Columbia,
...to manage the “valuable public resource” that is water: Western Canada Wilderness Committee v. British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919 [Western Canada Wilderness Committee] at para. [71] At all times relevant to this dispute, the Water Act provided four means for a municip......
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Carvalho v. British Columbia (Medical Services
Commission), 2017 BCSC 381
...of review. [93] In my earlier reasons for judgment in Western Canada Wilderness Committee v. British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919, I summarized the authorities as to the presumption of reasonableness that applies when a tribunal is interpreting its own statute or, as be......
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R. v. Desautels (L.), [2015] B.C.T.C. Uned. 463 (SC)
...to the use that can be made of this resource. In Western Canada Wilderness Committee v. British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission) , 2014 BCSC 1919, at paragraph 7, the court cited the following from Berscheid v. Ensign in the B.C. Supreme Court, and that quote is as follows: In British Colu......
7 firm's commentaries
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B.C. Supreme Court Upholds Recurring Short-Term Water Use Approvals
...in various exploration and development activities. In Western Canada Wilderness Committee v British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919, Bennett Jones LLP acted on behalf of Encana Corporation and successfully opposed the argument advanced by litigant environmental groups that......
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Water Use In BC: Recurrent Short-Term Water Use Approvals Are Lawful
...for oil and gas activities under the Water Act. In Western Canada Wilderness Committee v British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919, (a case we first reported on here) the petitioners, Western Canada Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation, alleged......
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Water Use In British Columbia
...for oil and gas activities under the Water Act. In Western Canada Wilderness Committee v British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919, the petitioners, Western Canada Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation, alleged that the Commission's practice of ......
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Court Gives Deference To OGCs Water Act Approval Policy
...Columbia Supreme Court ("Court") issued reasons in Western Canada Wilderness Committee v. British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919. In this case, the petitioners, Western Canada Wilderness and Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation (together, the "Petitioners"), brought......
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THE RELAXATION OF REPRESENTATIVE STANDING IN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: A SIDE-EFFECT OF CHARTERS OF RIGHTS?
...Have Standing", supra note 1 at 734. (186) See e.g. Western Canada Wilderness Committee v British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission), 2014 BCSC 1919 at paras 56-57, [2015] 1 WWR 564 [Western Canada Wilderness Committee] (groups interested generally in environmental protection and Hacking had......
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Table of cases
...430−31 British Columbia (Oil and Gas Commission) v Western Canada Wilderness Committee, 2014 BCSC 1919 ....................................................271 British Columbia Forest Products Ltd v Nordal (1954), 11 WWR (NS) 403, [1954] BCJ No 8 (SC) ..............................................
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Sources of Authority: Provincial-Level Land-Use Planning Powers
...of fracking litigation, see Wally Braul et al, “Water Use Challenges to Oil and Gas Developments” (2015) 53 Alberta Law Review 323. 221 2014 BCSC 1919. LAND-USE PLANNING 272 leader in The Economist , the process is described: “There does, however, seem to be a way of reconciling coal and cl......