VICTORIA B.C. – This morning at the CKNW Leaders’ debate, B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan refused to commit to cancelling Site C if the experts say the project should be cancelled. BC Green Leader Sonia Furstenau asked Horgan this question in light of new expert reports released this week. 

VICTORIA, B.C. – The B.C. Green Caucus has issued the following statement in response to BC Hydro’s latest reports that reveal the overall health of the Site C project is at risk due to significant cost escalation and delays:

“This project should not be given a blank check to proceed at any cost imaginable - the NDP should seriously consider cancelling Site C,”  said B.C. Green Party interim leader Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich-North and the Islands. “The NDP needs to be clear about the price and make a decision before river diversion takes place and we change the flow of the Peace River forever, which is scheduled for this fall. We will be holding this government accountable for the next moves they make.”

VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Green Caucus was looking for more First Nations engagement and a strong definition for “clean energy” in order to pass all of the amendments contained in Bill 17, Clean Energy Amendment Act. 

VICTORIA, B.C. –Today the Supreme Court of Canada rejected British Columbia’s appeal regarding the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. 

VICTORIA, B.C. – Provincial and federal governments announced today they will subsidize fossil fuel development further by committing $680 million to electrify natural gas facilities that have yet to be built.

LNG to Increase Fracking, Evidence Shows Danger to Health, Environment

Note: This release was sent in response to the B.C. Government’s update titled “Government’s response to hydraulic fracturing report: update,” which was posted online-only yesterday afternoon. 

VICTORIA, B.C. — The B.C. Green Caucus finds government’s response, which it posted online-only this afternoon, to the independent review titled the Scientific Review of Hydraulic Fracturing in British Columbia Report to be insufficient to address the magnitude of issues highlighted in the report, especially with LNG bringing with it an increase in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

VICTORIA, B.C. — In response to the Federal Liberal Party’s approval of the Trans Mountain expansion project, the B.C. Green caucus has released the following statement:

VICTORIA, B.C. — Ahead of the anticipated Federal announcement on the Trans Mountain expansion project, the B.C. Green caucus has released the following statement:

VICTORIA, B.C. — Today the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that British Columbia does not have the right to impose environmental laws that would protect B.C.’s coast from the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

VICTORIA, B.C. — Today's announcement of a ZEV standard marks a critical step towards creating a low carbon, innovative economy free from dependency on fossil fuels, and the implementation of a key piece of the B.C. Green’s vision that they have pushed for since the start of this minority government.