Environmental issues are BC’s issues
Current Policy Priorities
Securing BC’s Old Growth for the future
BC committed to fully implement the Old Growth Panel’s recommendations to safeguard the remnants of BC’s old-growth forests with big trees. But to get to the solutions-oriented discussions about the long term, it needs to stop logging in all at-risk old-growth forests now.
Protecting 30% of BC by 2030
A provincial commitment to match the federal target of protecting 30% of our landbase by 2030 would support BC’s obligations to protect wildlife and species-at-risk, as well as further reconciliation with First Nations by creating new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas.
Mineral Tenure Act Modernization
At more than 150 years old, the Mineral Tenure Act is one of BC’s most colonial pieces of legislation. Reform is urgently needed to align it with BC’s new Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and to better accommodate local governments, landowners, and land use plans.
Meeting BC’s Oil and Gas Climate Target
As incoming Premier, David Eby recognized that eliminating subsidies to fossil fuels and shifting support to clean energy as one of his five, “100 day” priorities. No sector threatens the province’s ability to reach the 2030 target more than the oil and gas sector and LNG development. Key policy changes are urgently needed to ensure that doesn’t happen.
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