Vancouver City Council has just passed its 2023 budget, including a 10.7-per-cent property tax increase, much of which is related to the negative impacts of climate change. In a recent interview, Mayor Ken Sim explained that more funds are needed to repair and upgrade aging sewer and water systems, in part to address increased flooding and rising sea levels.
Vancouver’s 2023 budget assumes that all those costs will fall to taxpayers — but frankly, we can’t afford it. Plus, until the cost of climate change shows up on the balance sheets of Shell and other fossil fuel companies, they will continue to work against real climate solutions. Oil companies have known for decades that they could be hauled into court over climate damages if the public learned of the depth of their denial. Another internal Shell memo in 1998
There are now 40 local and state governments in the U.S. suing fossil fuel companies for their deception and its role in causing the climate emergency. In B.C., dozens of organizations and thousands of individuals — under the banner of theLast July, Vancouver was the first to get behind this idea, pledging $1 per resident to bring a class-action lawsuit with other local governments against the largest oil companies.
Yup...tragic!
Can anyone produce any evidence these storms and rising sea levels are actually tied to humans and not cycles of weather. There isn’t any storms bigger then have been in the past. Bunch of propaganda
Place substantial sized tunnels through cement barrier walls covered in grates situated along coast to reduce wave smacking, tide overflow, and to catch garbage debris? FYI: would concrete “overlay” rolled or pasted against crumbling cliff sides prevent water and road rockslides
Did that Mammoth Vandal write this?
Maybe the City of Vancouver now realizes that $0.75 of every liter of gas sold in this Province , a majority purchased by people who own vehicles in Vancouver, flows to them as revenue. Don't bite the hand that feeds...
So, how much have the sea levels risen so far anyways? Seeing as the Fraser is tide effected I would think that the islands in the delta would be under water by now.
So the lawyer is upset that the city is not going to supplying a bucket of cash for him for a engage in a lawsuit
The city has been a carbon producer and consumer of o&g all along, since day one. If even connected billing or suing o&g is moronic.
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