To the Editor:
(Open letter to Kootenay-Columbia member of Parliament David Wilks)
Please let me and your constituents know what the federal Conservative global climate change mitigation and adaptation plan is for our East Kootenay region. I would like to compare the Conservative strategy with the Columbia Basin Trust report, From Dialogue to Action: Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation in the Canadian Columbia Basin (September 2012). I wonder if you have had time to read this timely report.
The CBT report mentions a ongoing increase in frequency of fires, floods, landslides and common occurrences of West Nile virus, Lyme disease and accelerating environmental insect damage. Since 2008, the Communities Adapting to Climate Change initiative has worked with eight communities (Kimberley, Elkford, Castlegar, Kaslo/RDCK Area D, Rossland, Revelstoke, Sparwood and the Regional District of East Kootenay) on climate change adaptation planning and implementation, says the CBT report.
As the federal Conservative government is championing the full-scale extraction of Canada’s fossil-fuel resources, one has to believe that the federal Conservative party has a significant plan for mitigation and adaptation to the consequences of global climate change that all of our communities and environment are going to suffer and have to deal with. What is the federal Conservative Party’s plan to ensure Canadians’ safety from the climate change issues outlined in the CBT report as Canadians taxpayer revenue is supporting the fossil fuel extraction and paying the international corporate loss-of-profit fines if Canadians want to protect the environment rather than extract fossil fuels?
Yahk