LEFTY HAND-WRINGING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

The Wilderness Committee called support for the Woodfibre project “reckless” and said it “will damage both the global climate and the public purse.”

And the B.C. associate director at the Pembina Institute, Matt Horne, said in a prepared statement that an LNG industry “would undermine the province’s ability to do its fair share in the fight against climate change.” Carbon emissions from the completed Woodfibre project would make up about six per cent of B.C.’s legislated target for 2050, he said, “making the target more challenging to achieve.”