B.C. environment minister says climate scientists’ letter ‘doesn’t meet with reality’

Desdemona Despair

By Matt Meuse
30 May 2016

(CBC News) – International climate change experts have decried plans for a liquified natural gas industry in B.C., but Environment Minister Mary Polak says LNG has a key role to play as a transition fuel — and that those experts haven’t taken a wide enough view of the industry.

In a letter addressed to federal environment minister Catherine McKenna, 90 scientists and policy experts said the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG plant near Prince Rupert would make it “virtually impossible” for B.C. to meet its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets.

But Polak said the letter’s authors have taken a myopic view of the situation and that the provincial government would be announcing a number of GHG reduction measures later this month.

“By their own admission in the letter, they say that they have based their estimates on no new actions in terms of climate,” Polak told On the Coast host Stephen Quinn.

“Their assumption from the beginning doesn’t meet with reality.” [more]

B.C. environment minister says climate scientists’ letter ‘doesn’t meet with reality’