Climate Change has been at the top of the political agenda in BC since the Throne Speech in February 2007.

Provincial greenhouse gas emission targets were set in 2007 (33% below 2007 levels by 2020 and 80% reduction by 2050). We applaud them, though we recognize that a large body of informed opinion says it's not nearly enough.

With the 2008 Budget, the provincial government, the government has started down the GHG reduction road with real carbon taxes. Still a long way short of what is likely required, but a good start.

Yet the policy and economic focus of the provincial government is still on maximizing gas and coal production. One of the two biggest projects underwritten by the people of BC is all about highways and bridges and ports, while the other is a self-indulgent two week party for the global affluent in mid-winter 2010.