The BC government excels in supplying warm and fuzzy sound bites on its environmental record and commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, but at no time has their true commitment been more clearly demonstrated than in the past week.

While the public gathers at Environment Minister Barry Penner's office to protest BC's newly approved coal fired power plants which will single handedly increase BC's carbon dioxide emissions by 120%, Premier Gordon Campbell declared that BC's coastal waters will be open for oil drilling within three years.

Any opening of the BC coast to oil drilling would need federal approval, and Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn has stated point blank that addressing this issue is not in the federal government's plans, but Campbell has continued to pursue the issue despite consistent opposition from the public and the feds.

And so, while the overwhelming majority of British Columbians oppose coal power, oppose oil development and support action on global warming, the BC Liberals continue in their own commitment - to the fossil fuel industry and to moving British Columbia away from a sustainable energy future.