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☝🏻may be a follow-up to major Sim & ABC Party's Nov 2024 attempt to reverse 2016 bylaw which "gradually phases out natural gas for space and water heating in most new building types by 2025".
""Natural" gas in this way is the single largest source of carbon pollution in the city"
Vancouver citizens protested. The motion, in the end, was defeated.
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Another *last minute amendment* to controversial #Vancouver 2026 Budget.
Mayor Sim, ABC Party majority, and allies have cut $8.2 million from Vancouver's existing retrofit program to make rental buildings less polluting and safer during climate disasters (cooling during #extremeheat)
"The climate crisis is making extreme heat more common, inflicting a deadly toll: the 2021 heat dome alone was responsible for 117 deaths in the city. Buildings are also responsible for about 60% of Vancouver's greenhouse gas emissions, largely because of gas heating." (600+ deaths in B.C. during #BCheatdome)
UBC professor:
"The word 'retrofit' is insufficient to explain the programs Vancouver's ABC part is cutting. It kind of makes it sound like this is a luxury, but cooling and living in a safe home is a human right."
Stand.Earth found, through FOI, trove of emails suggesting "provincial gas utility has had the retrofit program in its crosshairs since at least last year"
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/news/vancouver-housing-retrofit-cuts
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Global News BC: British Columbians asked to check on the vulnerable amid heat wave ‘blanket’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9894436/bc-heat-wave-august-14-2023/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Howtostaycoolinheatwave #heathealthconcerns #heathealthimpacts #ExtremeWeather #BCHeatDome #BCHeatWave #Heatsafety #BCweather #Weather #Health #BCheat
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Global News BC: With high heat incoming, fewer than 400 of B.C.’s free air conditioners have been installed https://globalnews.ca/news/9891215/few-free-air-conditioners-installed-bc-heat/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCairconditionerprogram #BcHydroAirConditioners #freeairconditionersBC #BCHeatDome #BCHeatWave #AdrianDix #BCweather #Politics #bchydro #Health #BCheat
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Cost analysis of 2021 #BCheatdome #heatdome2021:
* 619 people killed🪦
* $6 billion, human life lost
* 1,300+ people sought emergency hospital care 🚑
* $12 million in hospital care 🏥
* workplace injuries increased 180% 🤕#BCheatwave #bcpoli #Vancouver
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heat-dome-cost-analysis-report-1.6898360
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Global News BC: Health minister to announce new supports during extreme heat in B.C. https://globalnews.ca/news/9796467/new-supports-bc-extreme-heat/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #wheretogetairconditionerBCextremeheat #BCairconditioningannouncement #BCheatpreparedness #BCextremeheat #BChealthcare #extremeheat #BCforecast #BCHeatDome #BCHeatWave #AdrianDix #BCweather #Politics #Weather
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The Tyee: Why We Need Social Justice in the Just Transition (in Opinion) https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/04/13/Need-Social-Justice-Transition/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #BCPovertyReductionCoalition #BCtemporaryforeignworkers #VancouverDowntownEastside #WorkerSolidarityNetwork #BCdisabilityassistance #BCatmosphericriver #low-wageworkers #BCgreeneconomy #BClabourlaws #BCheatdome