What about investment in renewable energy? According to the Narwhal's overview, faced with a glut of energy in B.C., the government has “shut the door” on most new wind and solar projects and has not renewed contracts with independent, small-scale green and clean power projects.
The current NDP program makes no mention of fossil fuel subsidies - promising only to review oil and natural gas royalty credits.
Liberal government's level, the province's $1 billion being second only to Alberta in generosity extended to corporate polluters. Overall, according to a Stand.earth report, Horgan has increased subsidies to fossil fuel industries by 79 per cent over the B.C. And the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers quietly helped ensure that public health impacts were beyond the panel's mandate. The government-appointed scientific review panel indicated a “ profound absence of knowledge” about relevant impacts, but the NDP leadership accepted the Liberals' branding of LNG as a “bridge fuel” to a lower emissions future - a notion that recent scientific evidence on methane emissions from fracking has further undermined. But the Horgan government has offered even bigger tax breaks than Clark did - never mind the environmental impacts of fracking and the dubious long-term benefits to B.C.'s economy. Site C's core purpose, argues policy analyst Ben Parfitt, is to provide electricity for the LNG industry, the pipe dream of former Liberal premier Christy Clark. However reluctantly, Horgan green-lighted the Site C dam, an expensive legacy from the previous Liberal government. The government opted not to subject Trans Mountain to a “made in B.C.” environmental assessment, even though a Supreme Court decision authorized it to do so in 2016. The anti-pipeline “toolbox” came down to a single long-shot reference case on jurisdiction over bitumen transport, one that the premier seemed anxious to get off his desk.
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