Recent Victories
At Ecojustice, we select our cases strategically. We take on the ones that afford us the greatest opportunity to effect the most noticeable change. Each new case we shoulder takes us another step forward in securing every Canadian’s right to a healthy and safe environment. And each victory helps to plant more seeds of change.
For more information, check our most recent Victories Report, highlighting our big wins for the environment from the last year.
- Case Greater Sage-grouse Recovery
- Environmentalists are celebrating the first decisive victory for endangered species since the unveiling of Canada’s Species at Risk Act in 2003.
- Case Protecting Nooksack Dace Habitat
- This victory forces the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to overhaul 17 other endangered species' recovery plans
- Case Red Chris Mine
- In fighting the proposed Red Chris Mine, Ecojustice and its client MiningWatch Canada went to the Supreme Court of Canada defending public participation in environmental assessments.
- Case Victory trashes Lafarge's tire burning plan
- Legal victory stops controversial plan to burn tires, trash and bone meal in an antiquated cement kiln near Kingston, Ontario [Dec 2008]
- Case Landmark Supreme Court victory for uOttawa-Ecojustice Clinic
- Landmark Ciment du St-Laurent v. Barrette decision upholds the right of citizens to launch environmental class action lawsuits
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