“As a young doctor I’m already seeing the negative health outcomes of climate change in my patients,” says Dr. The fact that most of his neighbours had no idea what LNG or fracking were inspired him to team up with other BC-CAPE members this summer to launch Unnatural Gas, a public education and advocacy campaign featuring an engaging and interactive website, sign-on letter to MLAs, and billboards strategically placed near the Tsawwassen ferry terminal-right beside the ferries that burn LNG. Kevin Liang, a University of British Columbia family medicine resident and member of the Canadian Association of Physicians for Environment (CAPE), went door to door last summer in his parents’ Delta neighbourhood distributing flyers opposing the expansion of the nearby Tilbury LNG plant.
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Today, physicians and nurses are raising the alarm-and billboards-over the significant harms to human health and climate change caused by natural gas extraction and use in BC.ĭr. Yet many in BC are unaware that the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry, whose hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells across northeastern BC provide the fossil fuel that powers many of our gas stoves, home heating systems and ferries, is an outsized climate-change culprit. Vancouver, Aug– After a summer of climate reckoning in BC marked by a deadly heat dome and severe wildfires, the take-home message this week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2021 Report could not be more stark: not only is human-induced global heating to blame for these disasters, but we also have a rapidly shrinking window of time to slash our carbon emissions to ensure a livable planet.