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More than a dozen B.C. municipalities have sent similar letters to fossil fuel companies since 2017, asking producers to help safeguard against climate change events through funding contributions. Picasa The municipality of Whistler, B.C., is asking the oil and gas industry to pay its “fair share” by chipping in for budget costs related to climate change. In a letter addressed to Calgary-based Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. dated Nov. 15, Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton said the town’s taxpayers “are paying 100 per cent of the costs” associated with climate change events such as “drought, flooding, and extreme weather.” He’s asking CNRL to pay in to “the costs of climate change being experienced by Whistler,” including the municipalities’ “$1.4 million investment in community wildfire protection activities” for 2018. “As a town with a population of less than 15,000 people, this is a significant cost to bear along with costs associated with impacts to winter and summer sports tourism,” he said in the letter. The request is part of a campaign by West Coast Environmental Law and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities “demanding accountability from fossil fuel companies,” the campaign website reads. More than a dozen B.C. municipalities dating back to […]
