As the legislature continues to debate this year’s provincial budget, environmental groups have offered a mixed assessment.
Jens Wieting, senior forest and climate campaigner with the Sierra Club of BC, said the budget’s inclusion of $1.3 billion to address emergencies caused by climate change and address its causes has the “potential” to make progress.
“(But) recent trends show that we are already between a rock and a hard place,” Wieting said.
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