'There's nothing nefarious going on here,' said one of the province's lawyers in court.
Courts have no jurisdiction to decide whether the B.C. government’s climate plans are transparent enough, argued government lawyers in a Vancouver Supreme Court Wednesday.
Last year, the ministry released plans to reduce emissions in the province to 40 per cent below 2007 levels by 2030. It said the province would achieve that goal through two climate plans: CleanBC would get the province 40 per cent of the way there, and Roadmap to 2030 would make up the difference. “The basic requirement is to have plans. And [the Sierra Club] is saying, ‘Well, yeah, we know that you can't really go after the substance or the merits of the plan. But there are these subsidiary aspects…” Cowie told the court.
Sierra Club lawyers had earlier argued that combing the two sectors makes it impossible to gauge how the province plans to reduce emissions from oil and gas. In response, Cowie described the minister's legally required climate reporting as a "work in progress" and one that "is not an exact science."
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