A judge is expected to hand down a decision within the next several months.
B.C. voters are being left in the dark when it comes to how the provincial government is revealing its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, claimed lawyers in a pivotal case heard Tuesday in a Vancouver Supreme Court.
Last year, the ministry released plans to reduce emissions in the province to 40 per cent below 2007 levels by 2030. It said the province would achieve that goal through two climate plans: CleanBC would get the province 40 per cent of the way there, and Roadmap to 2030 would make up the difference. That matters, argued Azevedo, because B.C. has either missed or overturned every emissions reduction target it has set for itself.
By not detailing future emissions from the oil and gas sector, the plan “undermines the intent to hit separate sectoral targets” and “makes it impossible to gauge what the minister is doing to reduce emissions,” said Azevedo. While emissions from LNG Canada may only make up seven per cent of the 2025 target, by 2050, B.C.’s shrinking carbon budget means it could end up accounting for up to 30 per cent of the province’s emissions.
Ruling could have immediate and ‘practical impact’ Harry Wruck, senior council for the Sierra Club of BC, told the judge the current government claims would amount to "hollow words" without the court's intervention.Such a declaration, said Wruck, could potentially come in time to help the minister issue a more complete emissions reductions report in 2023.
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