Thread by @Tzeporah

A couple thoughts on today's "CleanBC" roadmap release and @jjhorgan press conference #bcpoli #cdnpoli 🧵

First of all,horrified @jjhorgan referred to LNG as bridge fuel & said he has been talking Carnival about LNG bunkering. I met with Chairman of Board of Maersk last week who was clear that science does not support LNG & gas as being part of decarbonization pathway for shipping.

The @IEA the @IPCC_CH & @UNEP in #productiongap report all conclude that no expansion of fossil fuels is consistent with Paris goal of remaining below 1.5C. LNG is a fossil fuel made from fracked gas. The "bridge fuel" narrative is old, out of date and has no scientific backing

So to be clear: LNG is not a climate solution. In fact recent evidence shows that the methane problem is way bigger than we thought and that any expansion of fossil fuel production or infrastructure at this moment in history threatens climate stability and peoples lives.

This rhetoric and lack of action on rising emissions from oil and gas is embarrassing for Canada and British Columbia. Especially when we used to be a leader on climate. In today's announcement they once again deferred action on oil and gas. This time until 2023.Not good enough

They say there is a plan to meet the 2030 target but where is the modelling? How do we do that with rising emissions from fracking and LNG and why are we waiting until 2023 to have a plan for that?!

CleanBC Roadmap includes accelerated timeline for light duty zero-emission vehicles & commitment to match California’s plans to adopt heavy duty zero-emission vehicles. Fantastic. But the claims about a leading plan are...misleading. We are now matching other jurisdictions.

The commitment to changing the building code to require zero-carbon new construction holds promise but why when the planet is literally on fire are we waiting for 2030 to implement that?

Quebec, California, and Washington State have all taken real steps to ban or set a date to end expansion of oil and gas production. Yet BC plans to expand fracking and calls LNG a "climate solution." As long as this continues we simply cannot call BC a climate leader. #bcpoli