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Growing B.C. effort wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate impacts

More communities joining Sue Big Oil campaign as Saanich and CRD explore the idea
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Sue Big Oil campaigners in Saanich celebrate after a February meeting where the district’s councillers voted in favour of exploring joining other B.C. communities in a class-action lawsuit to recoup climate impact costs from fossil fuel companies. (Courtesy of Sue Big Oil)

For Andrew Gage, events like the 2021 heat dome and worsening wildfires are making the impacts of climate change visible sooner than many thought they would be.

Those events have fed the anxiety his two kids already had about what climate change means for their future and it’s why the lawyer is taking aim at those prioritizing profits over the health of the planet.

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