B.C. election: where the NDP, Greens and Liberals stand on climate and environment issues
Good article in The Narwhal on where the political parties of British Columbia stand. With the election tomorrow, anyone placing bets?
As Sonia Furstenau's Greens pledge to end oil and gas subsidies and Andrew Wilkinson's BC Liberals promise to expand LNG, John Horgan's NDP sticks to the middle road.
The three major parties vying for seats in the B.C. legislature agree climate change is a threat, that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and that ultimately our economy’s reliance on oil is coming to end.
“That is something that we can’t take for granted,” said Karen Tam Wu, the regional director of British Columbia at the Pembina Institute, who noted in other jurisdictions, those basics are often up for debate.
“It really is an opportunity to build for a safe, more resilient future,” she said. [Read more]