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At least the Sun ran a good letter to the editor connecting the dots between fossil fuels and #bcflood. This should be a top story, with ongoing coverage. #bcstorm #bcpoli

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Connecting the dots: Floods, climate change and fossil fuel projects

Photos of the recent flooding in B.C. and Washington state have filled my social media feed and newspaper pages. Scrolling through, I wonder what it will take to help citizens and our leaders connect the dots: climate change is the leading cause of extreme weather and excessive rainfall, fossil fuel extraction and burning causes climate change, it’s time to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Instead, we can expand our clean energy developments (hydro, solar, wind, geothermal). We can only control emissions in our own country, and it’s time Canada took bold steps to move away from fossil fuels and embrace clean, healthy alternative energy sources.
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Agnes Black, New Westminster

The latest atmospheric river has every insurance adjuster and flood recovery company in Southern BC and Washington working overtime. Billions in damages? But @tyolsen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy says don't blame the media, you are not interested in why your basement flooded for the first time. #bcflood #bcpoli #yyj

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Great that @cheknews.ca covered this ‘unprecedented’ home flooding, some of which is not insured. Now it would be great to see a follow up about how fossil fuels are making costly floods more and more common, and fueling the movement to #SueBigOil. #bcpoli #yyj #bcflood

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More re Bowker Creek flooding. #yyj #bcflood www.reddit.com/r/VictoriaBC...

Photo labeled Near the jubilee tonight. Shows flood water covering field "next to St Patrick's"

Sadly folks on reddit r/Victoria are reporting that Bowker Creek flooded last night. The climate crisis, mainly caused by burning fossil fuels, is making damage like this much more frequent. #yyj #bcflood #bcstorm

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Inside of home basement with water around two feet deep.

Outside of house surrounded by flood water, with top of heat pump barely visible.

Big oil fracks up Hope #golf course AGAIN. "We just spent four years rebuilding from the 2021 floods." Maybe time to #SueBigOil? aldergrovestar.com/2025/12/16/f... #bcstorm #climatecrisis #bcflood

Flooding creates new Coquihall...

Corporate-funded groups say everyone everywhere should abandon climate action. @aaronregunberg.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy says that US progressives should instead champion climate policies that make life better and more affordable. Good advice in #bcpoli & #cdnpoli too! newrepublic.com/article/2044... #bcflood

Here’s the Climate Message Tha...

“We don’t need empty promises from the federal government that they have our back (...) In fact, the federal government has not even reached out to me during this event. So, I’m profoundly disappointed.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-abbotsford-mayor-rebukes-ottawa-and-bc-over-flood-response/

#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ClimateCrisis #BCFlood

This @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy article in @thenarwhal.ca@bsky.brid.gy does a really good job re fail of climate adaptation by Eby's NDP. But where is the connection to the related fail of abandoning the #CleanBC plan to reduce carbon pollution? Are both de-facto climate denial? #bcflood #bcpoli

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Fossil fuels, like fracked gas ( #LNG ), is making floods in BC and Washington more frequent and severe. And many politicians want to keep making these floods more and more devastating and frequent. How do you feel about that? #BCFlood #bcpoli

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#fraservalley #bcflood All highways in/out of Lower Mainland to the Interior are closed. #Nooksack flood waters expected to reach BC/WA border in a few hours. #Abbotsford folx in #SumasPrairie areas being evac'd. This feels like a more informed version of #2021 flood nightmare all over again.

Sorry @ayan604.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, that kind of climate action is not the flavor of the week in #bcpoli. Expanding fracked gas exports and taking climate adaptation seriously are not compatible policies. LNG subsidies require de facto climate denial, and that is where Eby and Dix are at. #bcflood

Unfortunately our weekend #AtmosphericRiver that brought torrential rains & flooding has claimed a life.

The body of a woman whose home was swept away in a landslide in #Coquitlam has been located.

My condolences to her family & friends.

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#BCstorm #BCwx #BCstormwatch #BCflood #BCrain

What a Sat the 19 of October 2024 it was across SW #BC, in particular #Vancouver’s #NorthShore over into the #TriCities inclg #Coquitlam/#PortCoquitlam then #MapleRidge—Coquitlam getting 1-mth of rainfall in 1-day due to an atmospheric river event. More to come!

#BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCFlood #BCwx

Sustainable logging will safeguard against flood risks: UBC researchers
Dr. Younes Alila and his graduate student Henry Pham found that the “severely and consistently underestimated” impact of forest cover greatly affects B.C. flood risks.
#globalnews #Canada #Environment #BCFlood #BCfloodrisks
https://globalnews.ca/news/10250380/sustainable-logging-will-safeguard-against-flood-risks-ubc-researchers/

B.C., Washington finalize cross-border flood-risk agreement
The British Columbia government says it has finalized an agreement with Washington state and several First Nations to work together on flood-risk mitigation and salmon habitat restoration for the Nooksak and Sumas watersheds on the Canada-U. S. border.
#globalnews #Environment #Weather #BCFlood #Disaster
https://globalnews.ca/news/10039665/bc-washington-nooksack-flood-agreement/

Global News BC: B.C., Washington finalize cross-border flood-risk agreement https://globalnews.ca/news/10039665/bc-washington-nooksack-flood-agreement/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Environment #Disaster #nooksack #Weather #BCFlood #Flood

#bcflood

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