CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES: Climate policy at BC’s carbon crossroads: 10 steps for CleanBC renewal
The end of 2025 will mark a decade since the Paris Agreement on climate change was negotiated. This review of the CleanBC plan is occurring in a different world. Even as the impacts of climate change are imposing widespread economic costs, the urgency of climate action has fallen by the wayside ... ... The completion of the massive LNG Canada project in Kitimat is particularly timely in this regard, with its first shipment leaving BC for Asia at the end of June. Other liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects are in the works and more are being contemplated. And in recent years, BC’s most valuable export commodity has been coal. Taken together, this represents a dangerous doubling down on fossil fuels. If BC remains committed to pursuing new LNG facilities and more fracked gas production, conversations about improving CleanBC would seem of little consequence ... CLICK HERE for the full story