Today, I moved a bill that amends the Environmental Management Act to protect drinking water. This amendment, if passed, would disallow the deposit of waste materials in a sand or gravel pit, in a limestone or sandstone quarry or above a highly sensitive...
Today in Question Period, I asked the Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources about the worrisome trend of massively decreasing revenues to BC from gas extraction. While the Minister suggested the information I presented was “not quite accurate”,...
My question last Thursday was for the Minister of Environment: Given the documented pattern of non-compliance at Mount Polley mine and the disastrous impacts of the tailings breach, can the minister explain why the B.C. government has chosen not to pursue charges in...
It’s sadness that I feel the most. Sadness that decision-making has been done in a way that puts evidence and long-term thinking last. Here is our statement on the NDP’s decision. B.C. GREEN CAUCUS For immediate release December 11th, 2017 Andrew Weaver...