A statement by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar today (Nov. 15, 2021) in the B.C. Legislature during discussion of the COP26 climate conference. P. Milobar: Well, it’s important for all governments to actually listen to advice and actually take action when it comes to climate change. Imagine if a government was to commission a report, say two years ago, around climate change and the impacts of climate change, a report that would warn about things like heat dome events, a report that would say…. I don’t know. In a heat dome event, there might be up to 100, 120 people who could lose their lives. Instead, a heat dome event comes. And yes, it devastated cherry crops. It also killed 600 people in this province. Imagine if that report was ignored, with no action being taken. That is what we see time and again when it comes to climate action plans. They’re a plan for a plan with a plan and no actual tangible deliverable. When climate action gets questioned — why emissions would keep rising year over year — we get told: “Well, it’s a lag in data.” Then we get told: “Well, we’re actually recalculating how emissions have been calculated, … Continue reading IN THE LEDGE – Report after report on climate change, and no action taken