Lesson 2: Environmental Groups at Work

At this point, you should have a reasonable understanding of some basic environmental laws, and you should be aware of the existence of private environmental groups and the sorts of things they do. But just how does it all work? What really goes on when there's a dispute between, for example, a mining or logging company on the one hand and concerned environmentalists on the other?

Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to examine a couple of examples of the process at work. In this lesson, you'll be looking at two situations where environmentalists have used legal processes in an attempt to prevent developments they believed would exact too great a cost on Alberta's environment.