We call on the City of Abbotsford to join with 9 other BC Municipalities to file a class action lawsuit to recover a fair share of our climate costs.
Either people like us pay for their mess with our taxes and increased insurance costs, or government compels Oil & Gas to pay their fair share of Climate Change Costs.
For decades after they knew, they happily increased the profits of their extractive industry, leaving behind a mess that someone is going to have to pay to clean up. Whether it is their abandoned wells or climate damage, or climate adaptation costs. (source)
We must force oil and gas corporations to change their business practices and pay their fair share for the harm they’re causing. How do we pay for a safer and healthier future for all British Columbians?
These multinational companies spent millions to deceive, deny and distract us on their way to billions in profit by preventing action on climate change. (source)
68.5% of British Columbians support their local government suing fossil fuel companies when they understand that the case is intended to recover climate costs that are otherwise paid by taxpayers. Fewer than 20% are opposed
On top of the affordability crisis, and the normal high cost of living, insurance rates are increasing. Residents are being asked to pay more for city, provincial, and federal taxes. This is partly because of climate change costs resulting from the products of big Oil & Gas.
If THEY don’t pay, YOU will.
What’s fair for Oil & Gas to pay? 73%
The EPA, the IEA and Our World in Data (a project of Harvard) all indicate that about 73% of human caused greenhouse gas emissions have come from fossil fuels, their burning in industry, transportation, space heating, electricity production, their transportation, refining, mining. Roughly speaking 73% of the climate change crisis we have is caused by Oil & Gas companies and the products they sold.
The flood on Sumas Prairie, the damage to Hwy 11, Hwy 5, Hwy 1, the 600 deaths from the 2021 heat dome, the loss of the village of Lytton, record destruction from recent wildfire seasons, smoke filled air to breath, increased costs for healthcare. Breached dikes the need to raise and relocate homes. The need to install cooling in homes. Climate Change is costing us dearly.
“Shell knew about the dangers of climate change from their internal research in the 1980s but, similar to other companies, took part in campaigns to spread doubt about the science of climate change.”
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