FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sierra Club BC Senior Policy & Science Advisor Jens Wieting offers the following statement:

“The provincial government’s quiet dismantling of B.C.’s Climate Action Secretariat—with some staff reassigned to support new fossil fuel infrastructure—is irresponsible to the people of B.C. It erodes our government’s ability to work across ministries on climate solutions that improve our everyday lives, from affordable clean energy to heat pumps and EV infrastructure at a time when gas prices are spiking and climate emergencies are increasing.

“The province received the CleanBC Review in 2025, and B.C.’s own climate accountability legislation requires government to meet its targets. Instead of implementing the Review’s recommendations—which were designed to get B.C. back on track—the government is weakening its capacity to develop and enforce climate policy.

“What we are seeing right now from this BC NDP government is unprecedented and dangerous: cancelling climate policies without replacing them, and dismantling the very capacity needed to design and implement solutions. This is happening just as climate impacts reach new extremes, and just as clean technologies become more available and affordable than ever. It is an unprecedented level of irresponsibility.

“The B.C. government often claims it is taking an ‘elbows up’ stance in response to the U.S. administration’s threats. But in fact, it is taking a similar destructive path on climate: sacrificing the health and prosperity of present and future generations by ignoring the science and clear economic signals that a better future will be built on clean energy, not fossil fuels.”

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