Media releases

VICTORIA BC – Today’s 2015 Speech from the Throne reveals a government short of ideas and content to coast while British Columbians continue to struggle with issues we can begin solving today, say Adam Olsen, Interim Leader of the B.C. Green Party, and Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head and Deputy Leader of the B.C. Green Party.

January 30, 2015
For Immediate Release

Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head and Deputy Leader of the B.C. Green Party, and Adam Olsen, Interim Leader of the B.C. Green Party, welcome today’s release of the Report on Mount Polley Tailings Storage Facility Breach and say it raises important questions about how we store tailings waste in British Columbia.

For immediate release
January 15, 2015

VICTORIA – The BC Green Party and Green Party of Canada today expressed gratitude that the Province of British Columbia is partnering with local First Nations and the Nature Conservancy of Canada to preserve Grace Islet in Salt Spring Island’s Ganges Harbour.

December 16 2014
For Immediate Release

Victoria B.C. – Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay – Gordon Head and Deputy Leader of the B.C. Green Party is extremely disappointed with the announcement by the B.C. Government today to proceed with the construction of the proposed Site C dam.

VICTORIA B.C. – The B.C. Green Party applauds Adam Olsen’s oral testimony yesterday before the National Energy Board’s (NEB) hearings on the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. Olsen, who is currently serving as the Interim Leader of the B.C. Green Party, testified before the panel in his capacity as a member of the Tsartlip First Nation in the W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) territory.