Climate advocates are sounding the alarm that B.C. is failing to curb greenhouse gas emissions and will struggle to meet its own climate change targets.
“Every year of failure at reducing pollution is moving us closer to even more catastrophic climate disasters,” Wieting said.
Last March the government announced a plan to reduce oil and gas emissions in the province by at least a third by 2030. During question period in parliament on March 30, Green MLA Adam Olsen criticized the NDP’s continued support of the LNG industry and the lack of details in the NDP’s “Energy action framework.”Article content
Environment Minister George Heyman acknowledged that the province — and the oil and gas industry in particular — was in transition.
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